Work / 003

Still there. Not gone.

A photo book on what we choose not to touch

Year2025
CategoryEditorial · Self-initiated
LocationChitose, Hokkaido

We almost touched something that should not be touched.

About the project

A self-initiated editorial project — a hardcover photo book paired with a long-form poem. Cobalt blue cloth cover, set in a wide-cut serif, foil-stamped on the spine.

The closer we came, the more it slipped into something fragile, something that could not survive us. So we stepped back — not to lose it, but to keep it from breaking. And now, it stays there, untouched.

Photography and writing developed in parallel through the studio's own internal practice — an exercise in restraint, and in the discipline of leaving things alone.