As much a memoir as it is a documentary, Anders EDSTRÖ M Shiotani , アンダース エドストローム Shiotani
BUY, 販売: Shiotani is a kind of photobook companion piece to The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin), the eighthour fiction, nonfiction film by CW Winter and Anders Edström (with Edströms photograph inspiring the film project, in which his wifes family play themselves in a fictitious narrative). Both the film and this 750+ page strong publication depict life in the small village of Shiotani, hidden away in the mountains north of Kyoto. Focusing on the family of Edströms Japanese wife, Edströms carefully taken photographs record the minutiae buckets in bathrooms, old laptops with chargers, train rides, parking lots as well as the landscape that forms the life in this remote village. Shot over a period of 23 years (from his first visit in 1993 until 2015, though most photographs were taken in the 2000s and 2010s), Edströms chronicle includes the death of his wifes grandparents. A story a
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