Cascade

Following my mother’s recent death, I was in the apartment where she had lived, I sorted through her belongings and came across an old confectioners’ box full of 8mm home movie reels at the back of a closet. I watched them for the first time in three decades and that experience triggered vivid memories of my mother and my childhood days.

This book is regarding the warm traces of my memories. Memory repeats again and again. Then it amplifies endlessly, image after image, flowing over in showering cascade.

About the artist: Yasuhiro Ogawa 小川康博

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.

「母親最近去世後，我到訪了她居住的公寓，整理一下她的行李，然後在壁櫥的後方發現了一個裝滿8毫米家用電影底片的舊糖果盒。這是我三十年來第一次觀看它們，這種經歷勾起了我對母親和童年時代的生動回憶。這本書是關於我記憶中最溫暖的痕跡。記憶一次又一次地重複。然後，它不斷地放大，一個影像接一個的，如瀑布般流瀉。」－小川康博

關於藝術家：
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。