Trails (Signed)

Takashi Homma
Trails (Signed)

Photographs: Takashi Homma

Publisher: Match and Company Co, Ltd

20 pages

Year: 2009

Comments: Softcover, 30 x 28,5cm. Colors photographs, 20 pages with 2 gatefold pages. First and original edition before the new edition made by Mack in 2019. Small dents to the cover otherwise in very good condition. Signed by Takashi Homma

In this dark and beautiful book, Takashi Homma traces the blood trails of deers killed in Shiretoko National Park on the Japanese island of Hokkaido. Like ritualistic stains or calligraphic compositions, the photographs, which Homma made in the winters of 2009 are at once abstract and symbolic. Considered by some to be sacred, deers in Japan have controversially faced culls due to growing populations, which upset agricultural communities struggling to protect their crops. To aid their mission in reducing numbers, the government encourages local hunters to take matters into their own hands. Homma photographs the effects – the red vestiges of wild life in the snow.