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What's it like to go to a family nude swimming session?
Family is one of Fukase’s most personal series of works. Through his posed portraits, the photographer manages to convey warmth and intimacy initially offset by the presence of nude strangers. As time goes on however, there’s a shift in the series and it eventually takes on the form of an archive, a physical way of remembering his family and the legacy of the Fukase Photographic Studio. When reflecting on the series the photographer said: “My entire family, whose image I see inverted in the frosted glass, will die one day. This camera, which reflects and freezes their images, is actually a device for archiving death.”









