Membrane
Japanese photographer Karen Sato’s Membrane brings together more than fifteen years of photographs, moving between landscapes and still lifes, between the familiar and the strangely unfamiliar.
Sato’s images often feel quiet, ambiguous, and slightly detached from everyday reality. Rather than simply recording the world as it appears, she considers how photographs are shaped by our own perception and experience. As she writes, images move through time and space, crossing the boundary between the world and the self, while both the photographer and the subjects continue to change.
The photographs can evoke the feeling of a liminal space, places and moments that seem suspended between states, times, or meanings. Importantly, Membrane suggests that this feeling does not belong to any particular kind of location. An ordinary street, landscape, object, or interior can become unfamiliar when viewed from a different position in time.
For readers interested in contemporary Japanese photography, landscape photography, still life, abstraction, and the relationship between photography and perception, Membrane offers a quiet and atmospheric exploration of how photographs can make the familiar feel strangely distant.
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Format: Hardcover | 88 pages
Dimensions: 267 x 222mm
Publication Year: 2026 | First Edition
ISBN: 978-4-86541-228-4
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