Feb.28.2008
Ayako Mogi publishes her first photo children’s book “Where is Schnueffel?”
Ayako Mogi, an Excellence Award winner of New Cosmos of Photography 1993 (the 5th competition) has published her first book. This photographic children’s book titled “Where is Schnueffel?” is based on a charming story in which a girl and a piglet travel in search of their piglet friend.
After winning the Award, Mogi was in charge of CD jacket photography for Fishmans, a band that has made a great impact on Japan’s music, but she made up her mind to go abroad. She set out to wander around Asia and Africa, and later settled in Munich to continue working creatively. She was awarded a new, special mention prize at Visions du réel International Film Festival in Nyon, Switzerland in 2002 for her documentary work “Ask The Wind” filmed on location in Japan. In 2006, she moved to La Corbière in Switzerland with her partner Werner Penzel, a movie director, and joined the art unit Jourparjour Compagnie. She is energetically working to develop her creative activities there.
She wrote the Japanese text for this photo children’s book based on a story written by a fellow artist. Its heart-warming touch became a topic of conversation together with the photos, winning the highest praise: “The magic that lets the pigs act” (Ku:nel Magazine) and “Luxurious book which has all the good aspects of a photographic children book” (Coyote Magazine). Not only the quiet locations in Switzerland, where she is based for her creative activities, but also the friendly atmosphere generated by families and friends, who are performing characters in the book, enlivens the pictures.
“Where is Schnueffel?”
| Photo/Text | : Ayako Mogi |
| The original | : Irmi Fiedler |
| Book design | : Kazunari Hattori |
| Form | : A5 variant (152x184mm), all-color, 64 pages |
| Sale date | : November 1, 2007 |
| Price | : ¥1,995 (including tax) |
| Publisher | : Shigatsusha http://www.shigatsusha.net |
Profile of Ayako Mogi:
Photographer and image artist. Born in Hokkaido in 1969. Left the Design Department of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music before graduation. In 1996, she presented a video work “in the couch” (music by Yoshihide Otomo), and “Ask The Wind” (screened at Shibuya Eurospace) in 2002. In 2008, she is going to complete “Silent Color Silent Voice,” a documentary involving colors and the scenes from the life of Akiko Ishigaki, an artist engaged in dyeing and weaving who lives on Iriomote Island in Okinawa, to be screened at Cinema Artone in Tokyo in spring 2009.
http://www.silentvoice.jp/index.htm
