Takashi Homma – Symphony: mushrooms from the forest Xavier Hufkens Published by MER

Published by MER

more than we mean to

The stories compiled in this book were the outcome of a writing workshop series led by Callum Copley in a town called Birzeit

accompanied by an essay by Richard Hamblyn

but then adds an element of design in which a series of horizontal images that follow each other could be read as rectangles that could be replaced by any other image or form of the same dimensions

Takashi Homma – Symphony: mushrooms from the forest Xavier Hufkens Published by MERInspired by the Ed Ruscha series Coloured People, Japanese photographer Takashi Hommas visited forests on three continents to search for radioactive mushrooms. The mushroomsgathered in Scandinavia, Fukushima, Chernobyl and Stony Pointwere photographed in front of a white background, with occasional photographs from the forests and views that Homma encountered during his hunt. The forest is one of earths most primal habitats; in the modern age, it is