Iroha - Kazuo Kitai wine you are the promise

you are the promise

We follow this tortuous path of sensitivity and imperfection with an eager heart

reflecting the radical aspects of the Soviet social and cultural experiment

Kevin Saunderson

Iroha - Kazuo Kitai wine you are the promiseIn this new series, Kazuo Kitai revisits his own photographic archives: faces, bodies under tension, marching crowds, fragments of resistance. Known for documenting the protest movements in Japan during the 1960s, he now chooses to reactivate these images through a radical gesture. By tearing his silver prints and covering them with paint, Kitai transforms photography into raw material. The documentary becomes abstraction; the image becomes a surface