Motoyuki DAIFU Holy Onion photo books His pictorial worlds are psycho-geographic

His pictorial worlds are psycho-geographic landscapes drawn from archaic and classical motifs of Tyrolean history

Milo Bonacci

Binding:  stitched binding

all imagined through the medium of risograph

As a pile of books stacking up in a library

Motoyuki DAIFU Holy Onion photo books His pictorial worlds are psycho-geographicIn his photobook Holy Onion, Japanese photographer Motoyuki Daifu concentrates on his mother, photographed while she peels an onion in the familys kitchen (both mother and kitchen are familiar to us from Daifus previous works portraying his familys life). In 35 continuous photographs, Daifu captures his mother peeling onions, frame by frame. The photographs are taken only moments apart, as Daifus mother cuts into the onion in her hand, scratches her