takashi homma: tokyo and my daughter

a part of the Nieves Book Series

A short, sweet and astonishingly beautiful picturebook of previously unpublished photographs, primarily of the photographer's daughter.

Takashi Homma's photographs are said to have a special energy, lying in the detachment he can reach with the objects and people in front of his camera. Even the very personal subject of the book still seems to make no compromise, to the disconnected way he registers what he sees through his lens. At first sight the reader could be brought into imagining that he may perceive his daughter as just being part of the Tokyo urban landscape as all the cars, houses and trees...or is she just ‘acting’ as one of them, being exposed to the staring eye of her everyday spectator, her father. Like Tokyo’s cars, houses and trees are to their inhabitants, she neither resists nor attempts to seduce the camera, but impassively returns her father's glances, even trying to become the spectator herself once.

Homma's declaration 'I love my daughter very much. I love Tokyo very much' is probably the key to reveal the connection between the graceful and intimate sequence of photographs depicting his daughter and the city of Tokyo. With his incredible touch and distance he creates a special world of his own, documenting his daughter from being a toddler to a young girl through the everyday places in and around their life.

first published in 2006
cardback
colour offset

printed and bound in Zurich, Switzerland