Photo Album
Chino Otsuka
Dewi Lewis Publishing
English
Essay by Greg Hobson
Foreword by Els Barent
Hardback
128 pages
280 x 240 mm
2012
ISBN 9781907893223
Photo Album brings together seven distinct bodies of work by Chino Otsuka, covering the period 1998 to 2012.
Born in Tokyo, Chino Otsuka came to Britain at the age of 10. The core of her photographic work is based on the personal experience arising from this move and her sense of a dual inheritance from both East and West. In many of her projects she uses self-portraiture to explore themes of belonging, identity and memory. For her, memory is a form of storytelling and the narrative element is important throughout her work. She is preoccupied with the idea of home, displacement, memory and loss. What makes a place a home and where does a sense of belonging come from? For Chino, tracing back and recreating the past is a way to deal with such issues. The imagined and the real, reflection and projection, past and present are all recurring themes.
About the Artist
Trained at the Royal College of Art, London and at the University of Westminster, Otsuka has exhibited throughout Europe, as well as in the United States, China and Japan, and her work is held in several public and private collections. Her first book Imagine Finding Me was published in the UK by TRACE Editions. Otsuka lives and works in London.
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About the Publisher
Dewi Lewis Publishing is a partnership owned and run by Caroline Warhurst and Dewi Lewis.Founded in 1994, its photography list has an international reputation and has included books by leading British and international photographers such as Laia Abril, William Klein, Martin Parr, Simon Norfolk, Fay Godwin, Tom Wood, Sergio Larrain, Frank Horvat, John Blakemore, Paolo Pelegrin, Simon Roberts and Bruce Gilden. The aim of the company is to bring to the attention of a wider public, accessible but challenging contemporary photography by both established and lesser known practitioners. The company has a worldwide distribution network and is recognised as one of the leading photographic publishers in the world. It publishes around 20 new titles each year.
Dewi Lewis Publishing also works in close collaboration with a number of European publishers and was a founding member of The European Publishers Award for Photography, which ran from 1994 to 2016. In 2014 Dewi Lewis Publishing received the PHotoEspana’s prize for Outstanding Publishing House of the Year.
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