Hotaru, Firefly | Yoshio Mizuguchi | Sokyusha 2019 [SIGNED] Leslie Turtle allowing the towns I encountered

allowing the towns I encountered for the first time to guide me along

All prints were created using warm paper with a different texture from Onaka’s original silver gelatin prints with nostalgic colors that evoke the photographer’s memories

" -  from the text by Robert Slifkin

and two years later

eternally pooling in expected and unexpected places and hiding in plain sight under the bleaching California sun

Hotaru, Firefly | Yoshio Mizuguchi | Sokyusha 2019 [SIGNED] Leslie Turtle allowing the towns I encounteredYoshio Mizoguchis portraits in this book girls and women of all ages in Japan: girls playing on the beach, older women in kimonos during a shopping trip, a woman provocatively raising her leg, another showing only her face, her body hidden behind a tree. All photos has been taken between the early 1990s and the early 2000s. At some point in my life, I had come to think of women as being comparable to fireflies. When the sweet nectar of my youth was