OVER THEIR DEAD BODIES

Kensuke Koike
OVER THEIR DEAD BODIES

Photographs: Kensuke Koike

Publisher: BlisterZine

48 pages

Year: 2015

Price: 75 €

Comments: Softcover, 26 x 20,9 cm, b&w photographs. Edition of 100. In very good condition other than a tiny scratch on the front cover. RARE

“Some time ago, browsing through old photographs in a flea market, two group portraits caught my eye. Of the eight women in the first photo, six appeared in the other photo as well. I recognized them from their faces not their dresses, which were different. No clue as to what photo was shot first. On the reverse both bore the same studio imprint, a photographer of the First World War.

I asked myself the reason why there were eight in the one photo and only six in the other. What happened to the missing two? Did they quarrel, lose touch with each other, move to another town or simply die young?" - Kensuke Koike