
Blue-Blue
- Publisher
- Akaaka Art Publishing
- Year
- 2016
- ISBN
- 978-4-86541-047-1
- Specifications
- Softcover
188 x 257 mm
104 pages
Art direction by Takashi Tsukahara (trimdesign)
Meisa Fujishiro's latest photobook seems at first a departure from his commissioned magazine work with attractive young women, from his two-volume domestic diary series and from his debut Ride Ride Ride, a rollicking travel diary of the late 1990s. Having chronicled his youth and built a steady professional career, Fujishiro moved in 2011 with his family from the Hayama hills overlooking the sea to Okinawa, in the far south of Japan, where the light and colour struck a chord. Okinawa carries a serious place in the Japanese psyche and in Japanese photography, and the issues the islands face are there to be seen and heard; he chose not to focus on them, but to set Okinawa in its true setting of light and colour. The pictures gather what he calls its primordial light and colour: light caught in the mist of breaking waves, radiating from thunderheads on the horizon, cast harshly across three young women lying on the sand. Fujishiro's Okinawa is a seeming paradise of azure skies and sun-soaked nature, and each picture transmits the temperature of the islands and his feelings for his new home.