Kaohsiung story | Meisa Fujishiro | Superlabo 2024 [SIGNED]

"The title "Kaohsiung Stories" was inspired by "Tokyo Monogatari" by legendary Japanese film director Yasujiro Ozu. Although there is absolutely no coincidence between the two, the title juxtaposing the name of the city and the story has a nostalgic and universal sweep, and was necessary for Fujishiro to show his love for Taiwan and Kaohsiung. As for the contents of the photo book, as a whole, it is a tribute to the amount of light that fell on the tropical city, the attachment to the people and women who live there, and the comfort of being a foreigner. As for the bookmaking, I placed all the photographs in the center of the book, with holes in all of them, so that the threads would run through them. I did not want to put the photographs on a dais, but to give them a load, which symbolizes the discomfort that a photograph can have when it exists in society."