Rinko Kawauchi
"From the black ocean comes the appearance of light and waves. It helps you imagine birth. I want imagination in the photographs I take. It's like a prologue. You wonder, 'What's going on?' You feel something is going to happen."
Her pictures are very much centred around her feelings rather than the subject matter, taking pictures largely of everyday objects when she feels a heightened emotion. They have a strange and somehow off-balance feeling about them, as if seen with new and different eyes, a sudden glimpse of a new world.
The Japanese photographer Rinko Kawauchi (b.1972) has over the past few years, in part through her publications, defined herself as one of the most distinctive new voices in contemporary Japanese photography.
