Nusa

• iikki 2026
  
• Hardback, 1st edition, 108p
  
• New

“Nusa” is the result of a dialogue between the photographer Masao Yamamoto and the composer and musician Akira Uchida, initiated by IIKKI, between April 2025 and March 2026.
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“Nusa” is the last part of a trilogy started in 2020 with Masao Yamamoto and Akira Uchida. A project that began with light (“Sasanami”, 2020), moved through darkness (“Kurayami”, 2023), and returned to the ambivalence of the two (“Nusa”, 2026), which ultimately sustain and complement one another in all their variations and complementarities. Both in terms of tones and in the humanity that runs through us in these times of such stark contrast.
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For this last part of the trilogy, Masao Yamamoto and Akira Uchida travelled to the island of Hokkaido at the beginning of 2026 to supplement the project with photographs and audio recordings of the ice and the surrounding landscapes.
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― description from the publisher
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The soundtrack to the book is provided by Akira Uchida, whose atmospheric melodies heighten the primordial and ephemeral aspects of Yamamoto’s images.
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Each copy of the book includes a coupon for a free download of Akira Uchida’s music.