Artist Blog

Every week an artist whose single image was published by Der Greif is given a platform in which to blog about contemporary photography.

It’s rough, almost impassable, this second book by Japanese female  photographer Momo Okabe. It’s full of messy colours, but still monochrome somehow. The photos show the years after the tsunami and an intimate, physical relationship between struggled characters. “Everything was destroyed by that tragedy, but I also felt energy arising out from the zero state. My intimate work was made around the same time I was taking photographs of the site, so I thought that there must be some connection between the two. I realised that my sexual experiences are just the same as the fear, despair and anger of facing death caused by the tsunami. It seemed so similar to the violent energy arising from the bottom of my body.” BIBLE Momo Okabe Published by Session Press in May 2014