Rinko Kawauchi...

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          Rinko Kawauchi is a japanese photographer who received nationwide recognition in Japan in 2001 when releasing three photographic books called Utatane, Hanabi and Hanako. She has since gone on to put on many exhibitions worldwide, most recently in September 2012 in Tokyo, Japan. 

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          Her work mostly focuses on capturing moments of everyday life. She therefore tends to use a fairly shallow depth of field in order to focus the attention of the observer on the subject otherwise her work and its message wouldn't be as powerful. In her photographs the only thing that matters is her subject and the contents in the background is often irrelevant...

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          In all photographs, there is one subject (Figure 1 is the baby, Figure 2 its the droplet and for Figure 3 is the emerging petal). is the with the focus falling on its nose. Also, the depth of field is so shallow that background detail is virtually non-existant!






I watched this interview with Rinko Kawauchi talking about her series called 'Illuminence'...she probably explains her work better than I ever could!
Rinko Kawauchi and Lesley A. Martin on Illuminance