pool Cozue Takagi

Photographer Cozue Takagi has continually posed new questions about the concept of photography. In this work, she explores Cyanotype, the classical photographic technique invented in the 19th century—known as the blueprint process.

Takagi introduced a unique operation to this traditional method: she produced a digital negative from an image captured via long exposure under moonlight, then overlaid it onto cyanotype paper, which was then exposed to sunlight. This relative process weaves layers of time and light, where an image captured by night light is fixed by day light, allowing multiple moments to coexist within a single picture.

Rising from the intersection of moon and sun, night and day, and yin and yang, is an alternative mode of photography that transcends the "here and now." As Takagi states, these images are "timeless," yet "filled with time."

The work shifts photography's role from a device that records subjects to a vessel that mediates the memory of light and bears the traces of transformation. It is a thought-provoking collection where our very act of viewing surfaces and fluctuates within the images.