See You Soon by Maxwell Anderson
Publication date: May 2010 // ISBN: 978-0-9562470-1-8 // Binding: Flexi cover // Extent: 96 pp // Trim size: 195mm x 245mm // Photographs: 60 colour // Text: English / Japanese
Publication date: May 2010 // ISBN: 978-0-9562470-1-8 // Binding: Flexi cover // Extent: 96 pp // Trim size: 195mm x 245mm // Photographs: 60 colour // Text: English / Japanese
Publication date: May 2010 // ISBN: 978-0-9562470-1-8 // Binding: Flexi cover // Extent: 96 pp // Trim size: 195mm x 245mm // Photographs: 60 colour // Text: English / Japanese
See You Soon is a photographic narrative, exploring the development of a relationship between the photographer and a woman from Tokyo. The book presents the progression of intimacy between the two, documenting the private journey from their first meeting through to her departure on the expiry of her visa.
As a photographic love letter, or diary, this book engages the reader in a highly emotive, affectionate,
and personal period of time. Capturing these emotions with a snapshot camera, photographing everyday and sometimes mundane scenarios. The book has been edited in such a way to form a full narrative, but within the pages, individual exchanges are present, revealing short passing stories and moments within the whole.
Photo-Eye best book of the year, 2010 nominators:
Ramón Raverté
Laurence Vecten
Fabrice Vagner
“The story is told beautifully — bittersweetly — as if each photograph were a lamentation of their predestined separation, once her visa expired at the end of summer.”
- Melanie McWhorter, Photo-Eye, May 2010
"From the perspective of an almost-fifty-year-old man, this is a sweet account of a transient love affair"
George Slade, Photo-Eye Magazine, 2011
Selected in Sean O'Hagan's Top Ten Photobooks of 2010 Personal Picks, The Guardian
"A beautifully intimate work"
"More touching is Maxwell Anderson's sad and wonderful book, See You Soon, which records his brief but intense love affair with a Japanese girl through various intimate snapshots of her.”
- Sean O’Hagan, The Guardian, May 2010