Amid the atmospheric forests of Japan’s Yamagata prefecture, Kazuaki Koseki calls upon pleasant woodland collaborators in his collection Summer season Faeries. Pulsing like tiny lightbulbs within the night time air, the artist describes himebotaru—fireflies—as “artists who paint light on the forest.”
Fireflies are a well-liked summertime phenomenon in Japan, when the bugs seem particularly within the neighborhood of waterways. Koseki, who is predicated in Yamagata, had heard of the firefly populations within the area’s forests, and he was decided to see them firsthand. He picked up an in depth map and hoped that analysis into their habitat would assist to pinpoint a possible location.
“I drove my car deep into the forest to the end of the forest road and started walking alone deep into the forest at night, without moonlight,” Koseki tells Colossal. After mountain climbing for a couple of half hour and resisting his instinctive worry of the forest at night time, he noticed a single, yellow, winking mild.
“The silhouette of the forest became faintly visible,” the artist says, and as his eyes adjusted to the darkness, the “countless lights continued to glow. It was like a starry sky twinkling.”
Koseki snaps a number of exposures in a single body, layering the glowing spheres of sunshine and parabolic flight paths of quite a few fireflies over landscapes that includes timber, waterfalls, woodland creatures, and distant horizons.
Discover extra of Koseki’s work on his web site and Instagram.
