Rinko Kawauchi

Summer 2006

The Photographers' Gallery, 8 Great Newport Street

 

"It is clear that Kawauchi sees her work as an almost inexhaustible archive of images with an endless number of potential articulations. Her working process combines a rigour with an instinctive responsiveness that lends her photographs a lightness of touch. At times she takes an almost anthropological approach, presenting butterflies and moths, fish and turtles, snakes and giraffes, alongside close-up shots of icicles and plants. She combines this with images that capture more momentary events animals in the landscape, of waterfalls and forests."

 

Camilla Brown, published in Great (The Photographers' Gallery)