At the border between the visible and the invisible, Sokohi documents the sensation of blindness as it settles, as well as the power of the imagination that arises from it.

As her father gradually loses his sight due to glaucoma, artist Moe Suzuki begins to document the daily life they share together. The resulting images are mixed with photographs from the family archive, as well as those taken by her father. Through these images, Moe Suzuki attempts to show what sighted people can see but her father cannot, and to imagine what her father sees but others cannot.

This book won the 7th edition of the LUMA Rencontres Dummy Book Award Arles in 2021. Its publication was made possible by the award’s founders, Les Rencontres d’Arles & the LUMA Foundation.

Biography

Moe Suzuki  (born in Tokyo) studied photography at London College Communications, University of the Arts London.
Upon returning to Tokyo after the Great Eastern Earthquake in 2011, Moe Suzuki taught herself book-binding skills and started a career as a visual artist, working primarily with photography, mixed with archival images and illustrations to tell narratives in book form. Her work focuses on topics such as community life, people with disabilities or spirituality