Image from "Noctchrome" book by Case Publishing - Images courtesy of Satoru WATANABE.
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Noctchrome
25/05/2026 - 01/11/2026
Case
4-3-17-202 Shibuya
Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, 150-0002
https://case-publishing.jp/en
Satoru Watanabe’s “Noctchrome” presents photographs produced during an artist residency on the island of Yakushima in the south of Japan. In his monochrome images, Watanabe circumscribes the depths of the island’s forests, shooting with a Noctilux lens primarily in the brief interval between night and dawn. This, he explains in his afterword, is a special period when the spirits of the night begin to disappear; a fleeting boundary between darkness and light. His dark, atmospheric photographs indeed seem to capture something beyond modern reason – not ghosts and spirits, maybe, but something that lies out of reach in modern urban environments where the presence of artificial light masks this special threshold between one day and the next.
25/05/2026 - 01/11/2026
Case
4-3-17-202 Shibuya
Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, 150-0002
https://case-publishing.jp/en
Satoru Watanabe’s “Noctchrome” presents photographs produced during an artist residency on the island of Yakushima in the south of Japan. In his monochrome images, Watanabe circumscribes the depths of the island’s forests, shooting with a Noctilux lens primarily in the brief interval between night and dawn. This, he explains in his afterword, is a special period when the spirits of the night begin to disappear; a fleeting boundary between darkness and light. His dark, atmospheric photographs indeed seem to capture something beyond modern reason – not ghosts and spirits, maybe, but something that lies out of reach in modern urban environments where the presence of artificial light masks this special threshold between one day and the next.