This is a list of the zines I have created that are primarily photographic.
For my photo storybooks, please see this page.
Your Silence
I create work based on my childhood experience of selective mutism.
In 2017 I invited the dancer Reisa Shimojima, who is not herself a person with selective mutism, to imagine and perform a body marked by mutism, and from that performance I produced the book Breaking Stones. For this new piece, I have revisited and partially re-used photographs from that time, restructuring them through a completely different approach.
It is a work about “silence” as it exists within the social world of school.
Self publishing book
Published:2023
148mm×210mm
Pages: 44
black and white
*You can find Reisa Shimojima on X (formerly Twitter) here: @shimojimareisa
BOUND
This work, themed around “speech,” is built around photographs of Yuuki, a dancer who lives with a stutter. As a child I experienced selective mutism, a condition that left me unable to speak at school, and my work grows out of that experience. After being introduced to Yuuki by a mutual acquaintance in 2018, I translated the felt experience of “not being able to speak smoothly, of the difficulty of speech itself” directly into photographic form.
Self publishing book
Published: 2022
W14.5cm x H15cm
Pages: 24
*You can find Yuuki on X (formerly Twitter) here: @yuuki_k79
The Confined Room, No. 6
Finding meaning in what is meaningless.
Becoming quietly imprisoned by it.
An accordion-fold work of square photographs, joined into a single, continuous line.
Self publishing book
Published: 2016
W5.6″ x D5.5″ x H2.6″
(Including box)
Breaking Stones
I create work based on my childhood experience of selective mutism.
In 2017 I invited the dancer Reisa Shimojima, who is not herself a person with selective mutism, to imagine and perform a body marked by mutism, and from that performance I produced the book Breaking Stones. This work is composed mainly of photographs of Shimojima’s performance.
Published: 2017
241 mm x 180 mm
black and white
Pages: 32