Pneuma | Ayaka Endo | Roshin books 2026
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"Neither wind nor soul, but something found between them—Pneuma.
Drawing inspiration from this Ancient Greek word, which simultaneously signifies "breath," "wind," and "spirit," Endo journeyed to the highlands of Tono, Iwate Prefecture.
It is a mystical place, seemingly suspended in the threshold between earth and sky, between this world and the next. The stage for this shoot was "Queen’s Meadow"—an experimental site that reconstructs the ancient culture of Tono, where humans and horses once lived together under a single roof. Here, horses are released from reins and horseshoes, living in their original, liberated state. In this "horse-first" environment, worlds apart from riding clubs or tourist ranches, the horses gallop across the meadows with an overwhelming vitality.
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Captured there is the silent respiration of the invisible "Pneuma," traversing the space between flesh and spirit, between the inner and the outer world." - From publisher's statement