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A Photobook That Unfolds Like a Walk Along a Path

Writer: Toru Ukai
Toru Ukai
28 minutes ago
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A little over two months have passed since my final photography trip for People Pass, the Path Remains. I’m still immersed in the daunting task of reviewing the thousands of photographs I’ve taken, reconsidering which images will remain in the final portfolio, and refining them along the way.


The portfolio currently online sequences the photographs around a provisional narrative. Ultimately, though, my aim is for this photobook, with its focus on old paths, to become a metaphor for a path: for the flow of images to embody the path itself, my own journey along it, and the history of all those who have come and gone through the ages.


The astonishing development of AI is casting new light on what it means to be human, prompting us increasingly to ask which abilities, inclinations, and desires are uniquely our own. Driven by desires large and small, people make paths from one place to another and go back and forth along them without cease. In this activity, I hope to find one starting point for exploring our humanity.



Shikoku Pilgrimage Route, Tokushima
Shikoku Pilgrimage Route, Tokushima
Anan, Tokushima
Anan, Tokushima
Shikoku Pilgrimage Route, Ehime
Shikoku Pilgrimage Route, Ehime
Mount Bizan, Tokushima
Mount Bizan, Tokushima

 
 
 

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