![]() A book becomes an object, a treasured object and people can collect. You can take it in your hands and you can carry it around. When that happens it’s really great, when people could look at your pictures on the wall, they can see the aesthetic details. Ideally you want the two together, an exhibition and a book. It’s not like people will see it for much longer, unless the exhibition is at a museum.īook, you are able to make a longer impact I think than an exhibition I think. The exhibition is more of a transient phase, less solid, it’s up for a month, and it closes. It’s also artisically, it’s a real achievement, it’s sort of more permanent. ![]() With “pipe dreams” I had a lot of press, mainstream press, even TV coverage, there was a documentary film made in Germany and all the rest of it, for me it was a real milestone it’s very important. You gain recognition, you gain sort of an international recognition if your book is good, you get a lot of press. But I think you gained recognition, worldwide, I mean look at me I am sitting with you in Japan thanks to the book. I think publishing a book is a major step, you pay a lot of money, at least as a photographer, as a documentary photographer, it’s a lot of money. What do you think you gained from publishing your other books and how do you think a book is different to an exhibition? So it’s really a family album, than anything. because it will give her something good to remember about my father. So I think it would be difficult for her to see this book, but at the same time, may be also good. So I really want her to see it as well, but my mother and father had a very difficult marriage, my father was away a lot, hunting and they divorced when I was quite young. She doesn’t speak English, so we are waiting for the Russian version to arrive to show it to her so she can read it. YUMI: What did your Mother think about the book? So this book is a dedicated to all parents. She will learn to appreciate me not only as a mother but as someone who is passionate about work, about photography and she will understand it better. ![]() Hopefully one day, she will, may be through this book understand what I do. I want her to see it, I want her to pay attention to it, appreciate it. She hasn’t seen the book yet, I haven’t shown it to her yet. So I really had him in mind.Īt the same time I also want my daughter, she is now three years old to see the book. It’s because the female and male gender of the butterfly. ![]() If you look closely, you will see the wings are separated. It is how he drew them, with scientific precision. On the cover there is a butterfly, it is my father’s drawing. Like the my father’s butterflies who were threatened by extinction and the red colour is an alarming colour, basically a big whistle for everyone to think about how to save the species, that’s why I chose this colour. They were basically books that publicised what happened to nations in the Russian and Soviet empires. The reason why the cover is red, in the Soviet Union they used to produce this book, they call them red books. So I am really wondering what his reaction will be because when I was making this book, I kind of thought of him. In his butterfly project, he wanted to mix it with Greek mythology, because every butterfly is named after a character from Greek Mythology, he wanted to explain why, the connections of butterfly behaviour to a certain character from Greek Mythology. He didn’t want it to be purely scientific. And even with his butterfly book, he wanted to make it accessible for a wider audience. He was a very creative guy, he always thought outside of the box. I turned a science project into an art project, you know. As a scientist, may be he will hate it, he will be angry that I mixed his pictures with mine. He passed away in 1991 right before the Soviet Union was falling apart, but I really wonder what his reaction will be to the book. If I can answer freely to this question, I’d say that in the fantasy world, I’d like my father to see this book. Who would you like this book to be seen the most?
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