Walk while ye have the light Yoshiichi Hara

Walk While Ye Have the Light is a profound photobook by photographer Yoshiichi Hara, created as a spiritual sequel to his acclaimed 2008 work, Utsutsu no Yami (Darkness of Reality).

Throughout his career, Hara consistently pursued the themes of human existence, sexuality, and the underlying presence of mortality, capturing strippers, distinctive nudes, and street snapshots with obsessive dedication. In this volume, the boundaries between "fiction" (kyo) and "reality" (jitsu) that he gazed upon for decades deepen further, weaving an illusionary monochrome universe where the two become entirely indistinguishable.

As the title implies, these 63 captured scenes reflect a quiet yet overwhelming gaze that traverses the rawness of reality and the invisible darkness of the afterlife within the limited light of human existence.

Transcending the boundaries of conventional portraiture and street photography, this masterpiece captures the essential eroticism, solitude, and flickering nature of life, offering readers a direct encounter with the very core of Yoshiichi Hara's photographic philosophy.