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Kami

Kami

Fugo, Hitoshi

Paperback

General PhotographyPhotographers

Publisher Price: $65.00

ISBN13: 9791280978288
Publisher: L'Artiere
Published: Apr 21 2026
Pages: 96
Weight: 1.40
Height: 0.48 Width: 9.70 Depth: 11.27
Language: English
Between ruin and renewal, KAMI transforms the remnants of disaster into a meditation on impermanence, absence, and the silent divinity of matter.

KAMI is a meditative visual elegy by Japanese photographer Hitoshi Fugo, unfolding across nearly three decades of reflection on impermanence and renewal. The work interlaces two temporal and emotional landscapes: the aftermath of the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake in Kobe, and a series of intimate studies of a scorched industrial paper roll found outside a burned printing factory in Tokyo. In both, Fugo traces the fragile line between destruction and transformation, revealing form within ruin and spirit within residue. The Japanese word kami means both god and paper, and this duality anchors the project's philosophical depth -- where the divine and the material, the sacred and the ordinary, dissolve into one another. Through images stripped of narrative yet charged with presence, KAMI becomes a quiet act of reparation: an offering to what survives, and to the poetic stillness left after loss.

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