Every morning during that summer of 1973, Masahisa Fukase would lean out of the window of his apartment in Tokyo with a telephoto lens at the ready.
Below, his wife Yoko Wanibe would head out to the gallery where she worked, unaware that she was being photographed. Fukase repeated the ritual day after day, obsessed with capturing every moment of her departure. He never imagined that those images, later brought together in the series “From Window”, would end up becoming the silent record of the deterioration of his own marriage.
In 1976, Yoko signed the divorce papers, convinced that he was only with her for his photographs. Fukase fell into a deep depression from which another work emerged: “The Solitude of Ravens”, now considered one of the most important series in Japanese photography.
