Book signing 'The Dreaming' with Yasuhiro Ogawa @ Photo London
Date and time: 12 May 2023 at 1pm (UK Time - GMT+1)
at Photo London - Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 1LA
Booth F11
‘The Dreaming’ by Yasuhiro Ogawa, was first published in 2020 comprising a collection of black and white photographs, shot during his travels throughout Asia over the past 30 years. Ogawa visited China (including Tibet), Myanmar, India, Cambodia and Latin America. For the artist, revisiting his negatives during timed of lockdowns and restricted travel, felt like reliving an old dream indeed.
The beauty of Ogawa’s work lies in the emotional quality reflecting the act of travelling itself; the sensation of freedom, longing and waiting, the sweet boredom of a long train journey or simply feeling alive… Ogawa captures the world as otherworldly and fascinating as it can truly be.
'The Dreaming' (current third edition published by Sokyusha/ Blue Lotus Editions) topped the charts as bestseller#1 in the online book selling platform UK ‘Photobook Store UK’ in 2020.
《The Dreaming》－日本攝影師 小川康博 的攝影系列及同名攝影集，於2020年2月首次發布。書中展示出小川過去30年遊遍亞洲的旅途中所拍攝的黑白作品，包括中國、緬甸、印度、柬埔寨及其他亞洲國家。對於這位藝術家而言，重新審視自己的底片，感覺就彷似重溫一場舊夢。
小川 作品的美妙之處在於反映旅行本身的情感：自由、渴望和等待的感覺，長途火車旅行的甜蜜平淡又或是活著的感覺……小川 捕捉了這個世界的超凡脫俗和迷人之處。
於2020年，《The Dreaming》於600多本攝影書籍當中，脫穎而出登上了英國知名 Photobookstore 的暢銷書榜第一位。終於，大家發掘到這一顆滄海遺珠。目前最新推出的第三刷，由 蒼穹舎 及Blue Lotus Editions 聯合出版。
About Yasuhiro Ogawa:
Born in Kanagawa, Japan in 1968. He started photography in early twenties by the strong influence of Sebastian Salgado’s work.
He has had many solo and group exhibitions including Futashika-na-Chizu at Kodak Photo Salon, Tokyo (1999), Slowly Down the River at Nikon Salon Ginza, Tokyo (2006), Winter Journey at Doozo Gallery, Rome (2013), Caascade at Sokyusha Gallery, Tokyo (2018) and Contes des iles et Paysages de la Mer du Japon at Inbetween Gallery, Paris (2018).
He has published five photobooks such as Slowly Down the River (Creo, 2008), Shimagatari (Sokyusha, 2014), Cascade (Sokyusha, 2017), By the Sea (self-published, 2018) and The Dreaming (Sokyusha, 2020). He has won several awards such as the Taiyo Award for his first solo exhibition Futashika-na-Chizu (2000) and The photographic Society of Japan New Comer Award for his first book Slowly Down the River. He was a finalist at the Oskar Barnack Award (2006) and the Hayashi Tadahiko Award (2015). He currently lives in Tokyo.
關於小川康博：
1968年生於日本神奈川縣。90年代初深受大師 Sebastião Salgado 的作品啟發而踏入攝影領域，目前作為自由攝影師並定居東京。他舉辦過多場個展和聯合展覽，出版了五本攝影集並曾獲得了多個獎項，包括他的第一個個人展覽《Futashika-na-Chizu》（1999年）獲第37屆太陽賞，以及第一本攝影集《Slowly Down the River》（2006年）獲得了日本攝影學會新人獎。
