Lieko Shiga: Lilly

Lilly is a photobook by Japanese photographer Lieko Shiga . It is a collection of her early works, created in London between 2003 and 2005, and is one of her representative works, which won the Kimura Ihei Photography Award (33rd time, 2007) along with her photobook Canary from the same period.

This book includes three series: "Lilly / Damien Court," which features residents of the Damien Court housing estate in East London; "Jacques saw me tomorrow morning," in which residents of the Calvert housing estate in South London were invited to the artist's room; and "Piano," an early work featuring his younger brother. Living in a foreign country, despite its precarious circumstances, the artist treats the distance and relationship with his subjects as the very subject of his photographs, creating images with a sense of tension that simultaneously reveals feelings of intimacy and alienation.

This is a collection of works that uses re-photography and staged techniques to intertwine documentary and fiction, presenting the act of photography as an attempt to communicate with others. It is an important early photo book that demonstrates Shiga's methodology and concerns, which would lead to his later large-scale projects.

●33rd (2007) Kimura Ihei Photography Award winning work

[title] Lilly
[Publisher] Art Beat Publishers
[Publication date] September 15, 2008 (2nd printing)
[Number of pages] Unpaginated
[Size] Approximately 21 x 30 x 1.5cm, 0.95kg
[format] Hardcover
[Language] Japanese
[Title reading] Lily
[Authors/Editors] Shiga Rieko/Photography, Goto Shigeo/Editing, Nakajima Hideki/Art direction and design
[Printing] Kashimura Printing/Printing
[ISBN] 978-4-902080-13-1
[Condition] Used [5] Average (slight scratches on cover, slight damage to binding)
[Accessories] Obi, booklet
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Rieko Shiga (1980-)

Born in Okazaki, Aichi Prefecture in 1980. Photographer.
A graduate of Chelsea College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London, he has been based in London since the early 2000s and won the 33rd Kimura Ihei Photography Award in 2008 for his photo books "Lilly" and "CANARY."

In the same year, he moved to the Kitakama district of Natori City, Miyagi Prefecture, where he has been creating works based on the memories of the local people and land. After experiencing the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011, he has been exploring themes such as death and loss, the relationship between nature and human society, and the inheritance of memory. His major exhibitions include "Spiral Coast" (2012-13, Sendai Mediatheque), "Blind Date" (2017, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art), and "Human Spring" (2019, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum).

His major collections include "Lilly" (2008), "CANARY" (2008), "Spiral Coast notebook / album" (2013), "Blind Date" (2017), and "Human Spring" (2019). He has received the Higashikawa Prize for New Artists (2012), the Domestic Artist Award (2019), and the Takashimaya Art Award (2014). In 2026, he will receive the 1st Umehara Takeshi Humanity Philosophy Award .

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