both: untitled (from the series 'alla'), 2004
© rinko kawauchi

10 september - 29 october, 2006
galleria carla sozzani, milan, italy
http://www.galleriacarlasozzani.com

kawauchi's themes
of family, human interaction with nature and the cycle of life are photographed in pastel colours.
her work reveals exquisite delicacy, achieved through sensate compositions, a careful attention to
texture and the cultivation of a beautifully clear, clean, often whitish light. she interweaves sensitized
ways of perceiving the world around her, with the fleeting conflations of forms that make you wonder
how one photographer mangaged to be present, attuned and ready to photograph so many pungent
observations. once rinko kawauchi said: ‘for a photographer, it's a necessity that you can shoot stuff
magically. accidents are necessary, but after I take a photograph, it is not all done. I continue to work
on it.’ she suggests that the editing and presentation of the work is as important to the final image as
composing and taking the photograph itself. at times she presented her work alongside her own haiku
poetry.


left: untitled (from the series 'alla'), 2004
right: untitled (from the series 'cui cui'), 2005
© rinko kawauchi