"Based on the maps drawn from interviews with local residents in Sendai, Australia, and Singapore, this is a fieldwork-like endeavor that captures and photographs something that goes beyond intention or design" (from the publisher's introduction). was created as.
Along with "illy" (Akaaka Art Publishing), published in the same year, it won the 33rd Kimura Ihei Photography Award.
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Get shot and die.
The photographic paper became the evidence. The printed image appeared before my eyes, smelling like something raw.
If the time axis of this world exists within the photograph, then I am completely outside of it, and in an attempt to escape from the present, an uncertain, elusive thing that hangs in the air, I desperately search for clues to that certainly existing axis.
The act of creating a still time in opposition to the flow of time itself that leads to my own death is akin to prayer, and the image is founded on a strong desire and attachment towards a being that is in opposition to the self.
When he shoots, he creates mechanisms to create coincidences, and waits for the camera to hit him unpredictably, in order to lose control of the vision he consciously has.
If "shooting" to take a photograph means shooting or killing, then conversely it means being shot, and there is a time when the act of killing brings you back to life.
I am already looking at the photograph at the stage of encountering the subject or the scene, or even before that. The time that exists before the photograph is taken strikes me, who is out of my league, and revives me.
The body is merely a medium. I had a canary in my stomach.
See what people and landscapes brought to life through photography offer to the afterlife.
Lieko Shiga (from the obi text)
● The 33rd Kimura Ihei Photography Award Winner
[Title] Canary
[Publisher] Akaakasha
[Publication date] December 2007 (first edition)
[Number of pages] 80 pages
[Size] Approx. 27.7 x 41.9 x 1.5 cm, 1.35 kg (including obi)
[Format] Hardcover
[Title reading] Canaria
[Authors/Editors] Lieko Shiga/Author, Taishiro Mori/Design
[Printing] Bunkado Printing Co., Ltd.
[ISBN] 978-4-903545-21-9 C0072
[Condition] Used, average condition for its age (slight stains and discoloration on three sides, slight damage to binding, slight dents and scratches on back cover, torn obi)
[Accessories] Obi
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Lieko Shiga
Biography
Born in Aichi Prefecture in 1980
2004: Graduated from Chelsea College of Arts (London, UK) BA Fine Art New Media
Solo Exhibitions
2001 "Floating Occurrence" graf (Osaka)
2003 "Jaques saw mw tomorrow morning." graf media gm (Osaka)
2005 "Lilly" graf media gm (Osaka)
2006 "Lilly" NUKE gallery (Paris, France)
2008 "A Stranding Record" Fotogalleriet (Oslo, Norway)
2011 "CANARY" Mitsubishi Estate Artium (Fukuoka)
2011 "CANARY" Galerie Priska Pasquer (Cologne, Germany)
Awards
2005 Mio Photography Encouragement Award - Honorable Mention (selected by Michiko Kasahara)
2008 Kimura Ihei Photography Award
2009 Infinity Award / Young Photographer Category, International Center of Photography (USA)
Publications:
・Lilly (artbeat Publishers CO, Ltd.)
・CANARY (Akaakasha)
・Canary Gate (Akaakasha)
