A sequence reflecting on the quiet concord of merely current collectively by Junya Suzuki. Suzuki is a road photographer primarily based in Kanagawa and Tokyo, Japan. “Aesthetic of After” inhabits the Japanese sensibility referred to as “wabi-sabi” which values the bizarre over the extravagant—silence over eloquence, stillness over movement. In search of the essence of existence, issues of their pure state somewhat than these formed by human intervention. This angle stands out much more with the passage of time and the way in which our consideration spans have tailored to trendy life:
“Wanting again at my pictures, I started to note one thing shared amongst them: a quietness. Maybe I’m unconsciously drawn to what stays within the quiet after, to locations the place issues are always forming and dissolving, the place nothing stays unchanged. Nothing endures. Life itself is finite. And it could be exactly inside this impermanence that we sense a quiet concord in merely current collectively. This undertaking listens for that presence inside the on a regular basis.”
Junya Suzuki participated in our 2026 E book Award open name and made our shortlist.
