From publisher: "This work aims to express doubts about the quality of 'everyday life.' Ordinary scenes, such as familiar places in the house, and the surroundings which we usually don't pay attention to, are no longer familiar sights when presented in photographs. I understand that the quality of everyday life is gone just like an illusion there. The quality I normally notice disappears in the detached photographic timeframe, and that very disappearance surfaces a questionable quality of 'everyday life' in my mind. I believe that photography is a means to reveal what we do not usually recognize. When I visit people, I wonder why what looks unusual to me are taken for granted as their daily affairs. What are accepted as daily practices among family members often look strange or funny to other people. Through this work, I would like to realize that the quality of 'everyday life' in to me is make-believe."

The first monograph of this artist, a 1999 grand prize winner of Canon's "New Cosmos of Photography." With texts in Japanese and English: "The Calm Surfaces of Scandal," by Martin Jaeggi; "Friendship with the World of Things," by Akihito Yasumi; and "Family Home, or the Stage of Representation" by Shino Kuraishi.

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