as it is – Rinko Kawauchi Photo Book

Intro

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Feature

• Photography book by Rinko Kawauchi

• Focused on family life and early childhood

• Combines personal photography and short texts

• Published by torch press

• Captures everyday life through seasonal light and nature

Description

as it is is a photography book by internationally acclaimed photographer Rinko Kawauchi, created over approximately three years following the birth of her child.

Since her debut photo book Utatane (2001), Kawauchi has gradually expanded her perspective from intimate daily moments toward broader cosmic and universal themes, notably in works such as Halo (2017). With as it is, she returns to the immediate world around her, focusing once again on daily life shared with her child and family.

The photographs capture moments from a child’s early years—before social structures fully shape their world—revealing a dazzling vitality that exists purely in the present. Kawauchi intersperses the images with short texts reflecting her experience as a mother, creating a narrative that is both personal and universally resonant.

Through seasonal changes, encounters with small creatures, everyday discoveries, and even a child’s first encounters with death, the book gently reflects on how life unfolds through seemingly small events. Published in 2020, during a time when the COVID-19 pandemic transformed daily life around the world, the work encourages readers to rediscover the preciousness of ordinary moments.

Tender, reflective, and luminous, as it is offers a deeply personal yet universally relatable portrait of family life and the beauty embedded in everyday existence.

Details

• Title: as it is

• Artist: Rinko Kawauchi

• Publisher: torch press

• Release Date: September 15, 2020

• Language: Japanese

• Format: Paperback

• Pages: 144

• Dimensions: 18 × 2 × 23 cm
  

• ISBN-13: 9784907562243

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