BOUNDARY|中心 (CENTRE)

Does the world revolve around us, or does it revolve around them? BOUNDARY is a book that seeks to revive the debate between the geocentric and heliocentric theories.

In Indonesia, India, Benin, Peru, Mongolia and Japan, we encounter vast grasslands, steppes, mountains exceeding 5,000 metres in altitude, and scorched, red-brown earth. People are living amidst landscapes utterly foreign to our everyday world, with their own values, traditions and mythologies. 

Looking these lives and locations we have to ask ourselves: is the place where we stand now the centre, or is it where they stand, in what we call the 'remote regions'? It's a question that may well cause our belief in the centre of the world to wobble, and encourage a profound shift in our perception of place in the world.

This volume is sequel to Boundary (Seigensha, 2021) and presents the first new works in four years by Urumu Takezawa, a photographer who has journeyed to more than 140 countries and regions around the world in pursuit of his lifelong idea of the Earth which encompasses both the land and the people whose lives are intertwined with it. His art name, Uruma, means 'coral island' in Okinawan and is an homage to the islands’ seas, which originally inspired his photography career.

Seigensha, 384pp, 15cm x 20cm, illustrated hardcover, 2026