Takashi Homma publishes Portrait of J, a powerful and poetic visual narrative that explores the identity of contemporary Japan by portraying the diverse faces, lives, and emotions of its people across regions and generations. by Felicity Carter
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Portrait of J
Takashi Homma
Takashi Homma's Portrait of J offers a steady, unflashy ledger of 111 Japanese faces photographed over two decades, and the power lies in its restraint. The images are set in everyday backdrops such as city streets, shop interiors, or plain facades, yet Homma isolates each subject in a buffer of space so the person emerges with quiet insistence.
Skin tones are rendered with a certain clarity of light, eyes caught in poise or drift, posture that speaks more than gaze. There is no elaborate staging or imposed narrative; instead the work trusts that a glance...
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Cult Photographer Zora Sicher Just Published Her First Monograph. It Marks the End of Her Career as We Know It.
A lot has changed since 2011. Zora Sicher turned 16 that year; she’d traded Brooklyn’s tween punk-band circuit for the darkroom and was already well on her way to becoming one of her generation’s foremost documenters of intimacy, whether bodily or emotional.
A year later, she would get her first tattoo with a friend, Eden. That matching ink is documented in the image, shared exclusively with CULTURED above, that closes Sicher’s first monograph, Geography, out this month with Dashwood Books. The tome sees the image-maker, who...
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The Brooklyn-born photographer’s first monograph charts a course through her personal archive, from her early teenage portraiture to the present day
When photographer Zora Sicher saw an adaptation of Joan Didion’s novel Play It as It Lays, one particular phrase stayed with her: “the geography of the human heart”. She wrote it down and kept returning to it, consumed by the ideas it evoked of mapping feelings and place, and the correlation between geography and experience – a kind of emotional cartography. At the same time, she’d been thinking about psychogeography and the practice of exploring our environments guided solely by subjective impulses and...
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The photographer Zora Sicher began taking pictures at 14 as a high school student in Brooklyn. Those early images capture the charged intimacy of adolescence: a friend leaning into the mirror to smudge on eye shadow before a night out, another drifting to sleep in the late afternoon sun. That tender and unguarded sensibility has shaped Sicher's work since. Her new monograph,
"Geography," published by Dashwood Books, gathers 14 years of images into what she calls a "nonchronological map" of her practice and the people who shaped it. The earliest photograph dates to 2011; the most recent was taken in...
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A young Chloë Sevigny looks directly at the camera, biting her thumb. It is not a gesture of unease; her steely eyes and fixed gaze suggest otherwise. In other portraits, she stands next to filmmaker Harmony Korine, who, dressed in a woollen jumper dotted with holes, often glances at the camera with a stiff, goofy smile. But Sevigny radiates the confidence of an actor on the cusp of a breakthrough.
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Over the last four decades, Japanese photographer Takashi Homma has built a name for himself shooting global fashion campaigns, publishing a prolific number of books, and documenting life within his hometown of Tokyo. Portrait of J is the latest addition to that extensive body of work, published by New York-based Dashwood Books.
With 111 intimate colour portraits on plain white paper featuring locals and residents from all walks of life – including family, friends and fellow Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama – Homma tells an unfiltered story of the ordinary people who make up Japan. They‘re portraits that focus on the raw emotion of his subjects, guided...
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