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Japanese photographer Mikiko Hara (b. 1967) has a unique way of secretly capturing strangers who cross her path: a young man on the train, a couple holding hands, a little girl playing in a park... Sometimes their eyes meet briefly as she presses the shutter, but Mikiko Hara does not interact with her subjects. Yet these portraits reveal something infinitely personal, as if the photographer and her subjects were bound by an invisible pact: to be in the right place at the right time. Mikiko Hara’s approach, rooted in documenting everyday life, extends into the intimacy of her living space: cut flowers in the sink, a strawberry shortcake in the fridge, her three sons dozing on the floor. The photographer’s eye—she is also a mother and wife—moves back and forth between the exterior and the interior, between the public and private spheres. Wherever she is, Mikiko Hara observes and tells stories like fragments of life. At the publisher’s initiative—who curated the selection in collaboration with the artist—previously unpublished photographs from 1996 to 2021 have been compiled into a single book, titled Small Myths.
Published by Chose Commune
23 cm 27 cm, 104 pages
ISBN 9791096383344
Japanese photographer Mikiko Hara (b. 1967) has a unique way of secretly capturing strangers who cross her path: a young man on the train, a couple holding hands, a little girl playing in a park... Sometimes their eyes meet briefly as she presses the shutter, but Mikiko Hara does not interact with her subjects. Yet these portraits reveal something infinitely personal, as if the photographer and her subjects were bound by an invisible pact: to be in the right place at the right time. Mikiko Hara’s approach, rooted in documenting everyday life, extends into the intimacy of her living space: cut flowers in the sink, a strawberry shortcake in the fridge, her three sons dozing on the floor. The photographer’s eye—she is also a mother and wife—moves back and forth between the exterior and the interior, between the public and private spheres. Wherever she is, Mikiko Hara observes and tells stories like fragments of life. At the publisher’s initiative—who curated the selection in collaboration with the artist—previously unpublished photographs from 1996 to 2021 have been compiled into a single book, titled Small Myths.
Published by Chose Commune
23 cm 27 cm, 104 pages
ISBN 9791096383344
