Tokyo and my Daughter - first edition

32 Pages
16 x 22.5 cm
Softcover
Color Offset
First Edition 2006
Good Condition

Takashi Homma’s photographs are said to have a special energy, lying in the detachment he can reach with the objects and people in front of his camera.

In this new book, the artist’s very personal subject still seems to make no compromise to the disconnected way he registers what he sees through his lens. At first sight, the viewer could be brought into imagining that Homma may perceive his daughter as just being part of the Tokyo urban landscape, like all the cars, houses and trees are. Or is she simply ‘acting’ as one of them, exposed to the staring eye of her everyday spectator — her father — just as Tokyo’s cars, houses and trees are to their inhabitants?

She neither resists nor attempts to seduce the camera, but impassively returns his glances, even trying to become the spectator herself once.

Takashi Homma’s own declaration, “I love my daughter very much. I love Tokyo very much.”, is probably the key to revealing the connection between the graceful and intimate sequence of images depicting Homma’s daughter and the city of Tokyo.

With his incredible touch and distance, he again creates a special world of his own, documenting his daughter from being a toddler to a young little girl through the everyday places in and around their life.

Takashi Homma (Tokyo, 1962) studied photography at Nihon University College of Art but left in 1984 to take a job as an in-house photographer at a Tokyo advertising agency. In 1991, he moved to London to work as a photographer for i-D magazine. In 1999, he was awarded a Kimura Ihei Commemorative Photography Award for the project Tokyo Suburbia (1998). A major retrospective of his work opened at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, in 2010. Homma currently lives and works in Tokyo.