Wandering dog | Mai Nakama | GRAF Publishers 2024

Wandering dog | Mai Nakama | GRAF Publishers 2024"While traveling, I worked for about a month on a small ranch where there was a big bellied cow. The cow was allowed to graze freely, and apparently gave birth on its own. I wanted to see how it gave birth, so I even looked for the cow's shadow in the middle of the night because it was a full moon. During my lunch break that day, I found a cow lying in the grass and slowly approached it. As I got closer, the crowd of swarming creatures around it all

The slipcase is slightly deformed (see photo)

A dreamlike sense of unsettling dislocation pervades the entire work

Throughout this process

Tenko went on to become one of Sawatari’s most important photographic subjects

and beliefs of the people who live there

There are a few scratches on the dustjacket

she said to me: ‘You have never truly lost what is most important

why did he start producing works about his family

The vinyl jacket has a few wrinkles and a very small missing part on the upper left corner

allowing the towns I encountered for the first time to guide me along

It was a fascinating city to photograph

"Instinto" and "Shiver