Italiano
L’approccio di Mikiko Hara, saldamente radicato in una documentazione della vita quotidiana, si estende nell’intimità del suo spazio vitale: fiori recisi nel lavandino, una torta di fragole nel frigorifero, i suoi tre figli che sonnecchiano sul pavimento. L’occhio della fotografa, che è anche madre e moglie, si muove avanti e indietro dall’esterno all’interno, dalla sfera pubblica a quella privata. Ovunque si trovi, Mikiko Hara osserva e racconta storie come frammenti di vita.
Su iniziativa dell’editore – che ha operato la selezione in collaborazione con l’artista – queste fotografie inedite dal 1996 al 2021 sono state raccolte in questo libro, intitolato Small Myths.
English
Mikiko Hara has her own way of secretly capturing the strangers who cross her path: a young man on the train, a couple holding hands, a little girl playing in a park… Sometimes their eyes meet briefly as she presses the shutter, but Mikiko Hara does not exchange with her subjects. Yet, these portraits reveal something infinitely personal, as if the photographer and her subjects were bound by an invisible pact: being in the right place at the right time.
Mikiko Hara’s approach, firmly rooted in a documentation of every- day life, extends in the intimacy of her living space: cut flowers in the sink, a strawberry shortcake in the fridge, her three sons dozing on the floor. The eye of the photographer, who is also a mother and wife, moves back and forth from the outside to the inside, from the public to the private sphere. Wherever she is, Mikiko Hara observes and tells stories like fragments of life.
At the initiative of the publisher – who made the selection in collaboration with the artist – these unpublished photographs from 1996 to 2021 have been assembled in this book, entitled Small Myths.
