© Hikaru Morishita

This series really struck me. That’s a good title, no?

Recently I have been thinking about how, if one had to define “Japanese photography,” one might think about it in terms of a realism, or perhaps simply a modernism. (I’m not sure how far to go in placing this in opposition to a postmodernism…) In any case, it seems to me like Morishita ¹ is taking up good modernist problems here, or asking the right modernist questions. I am very curious to see what comes next.