Lieko Shiga's photo collection “Spiral Coast｜album“

This 280-page book is the first new photo book in five years. Rooted in the land, the chaos that she sensed with her whole being emerges. Six years have passed since photographer Lieko Shiga visited Miyagi Prefecture. Born in 1980, Shiga began her career as a photographer when she felt a physical discomfort in her daily life and society, which has been comfortably organized and automated. While working in Japan and abroad, Shiga visited Miyagi Prefecture for the first time in 2006 to participate in an exhibition organized by the museum. Since then, Shiga has returned to Tohoku many times in search of a closer relationship with the land. This led him to the pine forests of Kitagama*, facing the Pacific Ocean. While living in Kitagama, Shiga worked as a community photographer, recording festivals and other official events and creating oral histories. These experiences greatly influenced his work. Shiga has created each piece of work by breathing in the air of Kitagama to its fullest and exhaling it quietly and for a long time, so that the photographs do not become detached from his own body of work. The goal was not to represent the uniqueness and uniqueness of Kitagama in a conceptual way, but to capture the traces of the body in relation to the land of Kitagama. Therefore, the works are not the artist's answers to the story of Kitagama, but rather the big questions that Shiga has been asking himself about what the medium of photography is, and what it means to live with the land and to express oneself in the land. These questions are sure to be heard as an earnest voice in our current society, which is facing many difficulties. (*) Kitagama: Name of a mansion in Shimomashida, Natori City, Miyagi Prefecture. From the website of the exhibition “Spiral Coast

Lieko Shiga Born in 1980 in Aichi. Lives and works in Miyagi. Lilly” is a series of photographs of prints she made while living in London by turning her camera on residents of a public housing complex and photographing them further. CANARY” is a fieldwork-like attempt to photograph residents in Sendai, Australia, and Singapore based on a ‘map’ derived from interviews with them, capturing something beyond intention or artifice. In 2009, he won the NY ICP Infinity Award for New Photographers. 2010 saw the publication of Canary Gate. In 2012, he won the 28th Higashikawa Award for New Writers, and from November 2012 to January 2013, he will hold the exhibition “Spiral Coast. In conjunction with the exhibition, he published a text book “Spiral Coast | notebook” and a photo book “Spiral Coast | album”. http://www.liekoshiga.com/