OCA colleague Rob included Otsuka in his CS A5 essay and I wanted to recall her work.

From: https://www.huismarseille.nl/en/tentoonstelling/chino-otsuka/ (14/06/19)

Her series Imagine Finding Me is described as, “a series of twelve unique ‘double self-portraits’ made between 2005 and 2009 which are created around a collection of childhood photographs taken from Otsuka’s family album. Here, the older Chino Otsuka uses a digital time machine to revisit her younger self in photographs of journeys she made with her parents as a child. ‘1977 and 2009, Jardin du Luxembourg, France’ runs the caption to one such photo; ‘1982 and 2006, Tokyo, Japan’ another.” (Lensculture, n.d)

Am reusing a quote I feel is incredibly relevant for discussions about a new reality: “Within a Newtonian worldview, the famed Cartier-Bresson photograph of a man jumping a puddle leaves the reader confident he will land on the other side; in a subatomic quantum universe it remains a matter of probabilities.” (Ritchin, 2009; 181)

Otsuka’s work is similar to Pedro Meyer’s composite image included in the Ritchin book. (176)

From: https://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2011/06/random-excellence-pedro-meyer.html (14/06/2019)

Other refs:

https://chino.co.uk/gallery/IFM/ifm_1.html

https://www.lensculture.com/articles/chino-otsuka-photo-album

http://v3.pedromeyer.com/es/