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Sug­i­nami : a book by James Luckett

Sug­i­nami is one the 23 ‘ku’ or ‘wards’ of Tokyo, an area of the city where I lived for five years. Houses and apart­ments there are sited tightly together; nar­row streets and even nar­rower paths wind in around them­selves in a maze of walls, fences, gates and plants that care­fully delimit pri­vate space from public.

In, around and through the mar­gins of this place I walked hours every day. Sug­i­nami is an explo­ration of the ways this land­scape lay­ers into the edges of a frame, the trans­for­ma­tion of light inside the dark box of the cam­era, and the space of dis­cov­ery between the viewfinder and the eye.

7x7 inches / 78 pages / 68 tri­tone pho­tographs
hard­cover with dust jacket

avail­able for pur­chase from Blurb.com

also see an inter­view by Stacy Oborn at her blog The Space In Between:
One Thing Done Two Ways: Eli­jiah Gowin and James Luck­ett on Mak­ing a Book