To Row the Wind
Takao HashimotoPublisher: Mo chuisle
- Size
- A5 landscape variant
- Binding
- Softcover
- Published
- 2021
- ISBN
- 978-4-907300-05-0
To Row the Wind (Kaze wo Kogu) is a photobook by Takao Hashimoto: 262 photographs of a single dog out on walks through the changing seasons, with an essay of about 20,000 characters that reads like a road movie. Published by Mo chuisle in 2021.
The story behind the book
It is a book made to be opened at the end of each day. Photographs from it, under the title Kette, were selected at Canon New Cosmos of Photography in 2021 by critic Noi Sawaragi. After publication it was reviewed in newspapers including the Nikkei and the Yomiuri Shimbun, and panel shows and exhibitions were held at bookstores and galleries across Japan, including Nikon Salon in Shinjuku.
What is in the book
- 262 photographs of one dog through the seasons
- An essay of about 20,000 characters (Japanese)
- A5 landscape variant, designed by Ken Okamoto+
About Takao Hashimoto
Born in 1980 in Kumamoto, Hashimoto graduated from the photography course of Visual Arts Osaka in 2008. He moved to Germany in 2011, exhibits in Japan and abroad, and lives in Berlin.
