Rie | Lena C. Emery | Kominek 2016 Yoji Ishikawa but when you look at

but when you look at it

Signed copy in near fine conditions

the images of this series appeared in part in the volume Friction / Tokyo Street published in 2020 by Steidl and quickly sold out

walking the dog took him about two hours

The conflict brought about by this strong contrast conveys both a sense of the world's realness as well as a feeling that things are being manipulated

Rie | Lena C. Emery | Kominek 2016 Yoji Ishikawa but when you look atWithin the series of Rie, I wanted to embark on an inherently female dialogue on the subject of revealing. Japan is uniquely ambigious in this respect which encouraged me to explore these thoughts through the communication with and portrayal of Japanese women. As the subjects in the images repeatedly pose, rest and move at times playfully while being in different states of undress, we become witness to a delicately complex elaboration in character.