Inhabiting Light – Dialogue on the Edge of the Everyday World

This publication is structured as a dialogue of texts and photographs. Rinko Kawauchi replies with photographs to the text by the philosopher Masatake Shinohara, which is again responded to by Shinohara’s words. Upon writing, Shinohara says that he repeatedly recalled Kawauchi’s words: “what is important about a photo is the way one takes it, rather than what one takes.”

“In reality, we experience something. When we experience that something, it is important to ask how it came into existence in this world. (…) As I continued the exchange with Kawauchi, I came to the realization that what was at stake in the responses to the photographs was the act of directing the movements of thought towards the dimension in which things happen: that is, the place from which reality emerges. Such a dimension lies hidden behind the surface of the everyday world in which we ordinarily live.” – from the afterward. There, you will see the different sensations and emotions surfacing from the photographs, and the line of thought unfolding through such manifestations are given life as words.  The text and photography interrelate to explore the depths of “light” as a subject.