SMALL MYTHS - Mikiko Hara
Japanese photographer Mikiko Hara (1967-) has her own way of secretly capturing the 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 when she presses the shutter, but Mikiko Hara does not exchange 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 a documentation of everyday life, extends into the intimacy of her living space: cut flowers in the sink, a strawberry shortcake in the fridge, her three sons asleep on the floor. The photographer's eye, who is also a mother and a wife, moves back and forth from the outside to the inside, from the public to the private sphere. Wherever she is, Mikiko Hara observes and tells stories like fragments of life. At the initiative of the publisher - who made the selection in collaboration with the artist - unpublished photographs from 1996 to 2021 have been collected in a single book, entitled Small Myths.
Published by Chose Commune
23 cm x 27 cm, 104 pages
ISBN 9791096383344
Japanese photographer Mikiko Hara (1967-) has her own way of secretly capturing the 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 when she presses the shutter, but Mikiko Hara does not exchange 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 a documentation of everyday life, extends into the intimacy of her living space: cut flowers in the sink, a strawberry shortcake in the fridge, her three sons asleep on the floor. The photographer's eye, who is also a mother and a wife, moves back and forth from the outside to the inside, from the public to the private sphere. Wherever she is, Mikiko Hara observes and tells stories like fragments of life. At the initiative of the publisher - who made the selection in collaboration with the artist - unpublished photographs from 1996 to 2021 have been collected in a single book, entitled Small Myths.
Published by Chose Commune
23 cm x 27 cm, 104 pages
ISBN 9791096383344
Japanese photographer Mikiko Hara (1967-) has her own way of secretly capturing the 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 when she presses the shutter, but Mikiko Hara does not exchange 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 a documentation of everyday life, extends into the intimacy of her living space: cut flowers in the sink, a strawberry shortcake in the fridge, her three sons asleep on the floor. The photographer's eye, who is also a mother and a wife, moves back and forth from the outside to the inside, from the public to the private sphere. Wherever she is, Mikiko Hara observes and tells stories like fragments of life. At the initiative of the publisher - who made the selection in collaboration with the artist - unpublished photographs from 1996 to 2021 have been collected in a single book, entitled Small Myths.
Published by Chose Commune
23 cm x 27 cm, 104 pages
ISBN 9791096383344
