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’