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‘Rie’ Signed & Numbered — by Lena C. Emery
‘Rie’ by German photographer Lena C. Emery was selected as one of the most engaging & exciting projects in photography in 2016 by the British Journal of Photography.
On the last pages and written in the voice of a young girl ruminating on the joys of days spent uninhibitedly whilst living in rural Japan during a bygone era, Emery gives into the notion of our bodies being directly bound to the natural world:
...In summer time, once the sun would stay high above the horizon for most of the day, father would take us through the forest, down to Yuigahama beach. For hours my sisters and I would lay there, our naked bodies buried deep in the hot sand, listening to the undulating waves as they touched and lapped onto the rocks. We would watch the last fishermen come ashore, chanting Soran Bushi, their song of gratitude to the wide ocean’s treasures caught that day. Come nightfall, we returned home with the taste of salt still fresh on our tongues and our skin dark, like the muddy brown of a distant river. Oh, how much joy would have been lost on those summer days, had our bodies been covered in these linens then...
Published by Kominek Books, Berlin, 2016
Signed and Numbered Edition of 750
78 Pages. 37 Color Plates
Contains a Short Story by the Artist
Inclusive of shipping worldwide
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