KAZUHIKO MATSUMURA’S GURUGURU – MY TRANSMIGRATION – ORDER AVAILABLE NOW!

One of RPS photobook masterclass participants, Kazuhiko Matsumura has been working on his photobook project “GuruGuru – My Transmigration” for the masterclass since last December is taking your orders now!
The book will launch at his solo exhibition opens on June 4th at Reminders Photography Stronghold gallery

Someday I will die. As a young child, I could not sleep well at night because I imagined the pain and suffering of death. At such times, a strange and unpleasant time would come to me. My body, which was supposed to be lying in a pitch-dark room, floated and was carried somewhere, spinning around and around, up and down, left and right. I was awake, so it was not a dream, and so surreal.

Where was I going at that moment? I wanted to get as close as possible to the answer. I tried to capture the light of life and the shadows of death that are everywhere in our lives, although I could not see them clearly. I wanted to capture the reality in front of me and at the same time reach the cracks that lead beyond reality.

With the birth of my first son and the death of my grandmother, I decided to search for answers through photography with the young me in my heart.

As I repeatedly stared at the photographs, arranged them, and tried to weave a book around them, in a roundabout way, I began to dimly see where I was headed. I was once born into this world like my eldest son, and one day, like my grandmother, I would say goodbye to this world.

But I also learned one thing that I did not realize when I was a child. We were not only born and die. Life also goes around and around.

Kazuhiko Matsumura

*Guru Guru is a Japanese mimetic word. It means rolling over and over and over again.

GURUGURU – MY TRANSMIGRATION – from REMINDERS PHOTOGRAPHY STRONGHOLD on Vimeo.

Copyright © Kazuhiko Matsumura, 2016 All Rights Reserved
Photo/Text/Binding: Kazuhiko Matsumura
Border Design: Kanako Matsumura
Scribbled Design: Kaito Matsumura
Translation: Roy Goff, Kazuhiko Matsumura
Basic Concept: developed in association with the Reminders Photography Stronghold mentorship program by Yumi Goto
Concept, edit and art direction: developed in the 2015 photobook making masterclass by Yumi Goto, Sandra van der Doelen and Teun van der Heijden in collaboration with Reminders Photography Stronghold
Book Specifications:
Pages: 124pages small booklet 16pages
Size: 285×205×20mm
No. of Images: 71
Printed by all archival inkjet printers (Pigment Ink)
Edition: 48 signed and numbered.
Price: 15,000JPY plus shipping to your destination.
To Asia 2,620 JPY To: North and central America, Europe, Middle East and Oceania 3,250 JPY To: South America and Africa 4,100 JPY
**The book will start dispatching after the book lunch of June 4th onwards.
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