Walking with Leica 2 Kazuo Kitai

This is a re-edited version of "Walking with Leica" by photographer Kazuo Kitai, which appeared in the monthly magazine "Nippon Camera" from January 2005 to December 2006. It contains photographs of things that happened in the author's daily life or that he found during his walks, which he recorded with his Barnack Leica. 

Kitai began to wonder if it would be possible to take photographs inside his house without going outside, and experimented with the idea of taking photographs without leaving his home. For starters, he took pictures of "clothes" that he had taken off that he felt still had some part of himself in them. Next, he continued to take pictures as he thought of them: bedclothes he had just woken up from in the morning, a hanger casually hanging from the curtain rail of a window, an apple before washing and eating, and so on. Eventually he began taking pictures of "three yuzus" and "three scraps of paper," gradually being drawn in by the profundity of the images. The editor-in-chief of Nippon Camera, who was in charge of the serialization, finally muttered, "You seem to have become a recluse," when he saw the photographs produced in this way. This book gives us a sense of the depth to his thinking and expression that came about through the restrictions he placed on his photography.