Why are you so f***in’ beautiful?

As long as I have grown up in a different culture than the rest of the world, I can’t stop this feeling, “Why are you so f***’in beautiful?”, which is why I continue to travel around the world. I saw an art piece in Venetia Biennale, which explained, “I have spent my whole life trying to understand the word ‘beautiful’, because I have always felt it, however, I could never put it into words....to feel beauty, we must accept that our trauma is sublime ....I realize now....It is heartbreakingly beautiful just to exist....Life is really fucking beautiful.” It stuck in my mind and has never gone, so I put this title on my piece paying homage to the artist in Venice.

Summer - Autumn, 2022 / Berlin, Copenhagen, Basel, Vienna, Lisbon, Nazaré, Porto, Kassel, Frankfurt, Venice, Milan Photo & designed by Nanako Uebo