Rinko Kawauchi presents a series of photographs that moves through light and slowed into memory.
A decade after her debut transformed Japanese photography, Kawauchi collects stillness across loosely threaded images; everyday scenes that fold time, movement, and ephemerality into flickering patterns.
Illuminance marked her first monograph released outside Japan, holding moments so soft they slip past language: light hitting a stair, a droplet over the leaf, a bunch of wall clock. Each frame asks us to look, then look again.
This is the afterimage that stays long after the shutter closes.
Image courtesy of Rinko Kawauchi
