Seeing Birds – Rika Noguchi

Research on Seeing Birds – Rika Noguchi - Three series in one book (To Dive, Seeing Birds, The Prime)

- Arrange three series in a consistent manner in same book but slightly different in design so to distinguish

- “Ways of looking at earth”

- To Dive – on diver, sequence of preparing to dive til going into the water

- All images are situated on the right spread

- Only the last image which POV from the diver is a full spread – more powerful

- Seeing Birds – on the concept of ‘seeing’, the photographer once joined the wild bird watching group but in the end she took images of a kite competition

- Square format images in consistent size / center in the page

- Subjects are looking in the same direction on same spread

- A lot of empty space in the spread, suggesting a space for imagination (of what they are looking at)

- Feeling consistent distance with the subjects (being far away, in a way also create similar distance of the subjects watching the kites)

- The Prime – on people who climb Fuji Mount

- Images of people / climbers in foggy weather, taken in diff distance from the subjects

- End with a picture of plant

- The image size is larger than ‘Seeing Birds’