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I am always taking photos. The photos taken from 2009 to 2013 are brought together into a book. I usually press the shutter button only once when taking photos. That is because I value the moment captured through the finder. Taking a look around for anything worth taking a photo and compose into a picture would require thinking process which I'd rather avoid. So, I decided not to do that. I always want to follow my instinct rather than my head. "MY HOUSE", the title of this book, is the word which reflects the state of my mind and has almost the same meaning as "my mind". Seiji KUMAGAI

For his photo series "Words", Japanese artist Koichiro Kimura attached a camera to the ceiling of his family home. For two years, the camera automatically took a picture every ten minutes, over 100. 000 photos in total. The resulting images - selected by Kimura - offer an unadulterated record of the life of a family. In the intimate photos, it seems like the scenery is already talking to us - showing us parents sleeping with their child, the kid taking a nap, the mother reading to her son. Perhaps there is no need for words. "If the photos allow you feel like you are looking at a picture book, as if you are looking down into and watching over the house of another family, then I've succeeded. "- from the artist's statementThe images in this series have been exhibited at the Epson Imaging Gallery Epsite in 2014, and received an honorable mention at the Canon New Century of Photography competition of the same year.

Family love, childhood moments, parent-child relationships are defining themes in the photography of Koichiro Kimura. For his photobook "Tomodachi" ("Friends"), Kimura took photographs every time his son went to poop on the toilet (the son, still too young to wipe himself, needed his father's assistance when going to the toilet), capturing the fine differences in his facial expressions - from the toughest fight to clear expressions of boredom. "I think that children live each and every day wholeheartedly, and going to the toilet is just one aspect of that. Children seem to consider pooping an amicable activity rather than a dirty. "- from the artist's statement