The Newspaper is a photobook produced using the newspaper itself as its medium. The project is set within the Kyoto Shimbun, one of Japan’s oldest regional newspapers with a history spanning more than 140 years. Even today, reporters continue travelling to remote mountain villages, while newspaper carriers deliver the news every day. Japanese photographer Kazuma Obara and writer Akihico Mori documented, through photographs and texts, one of the final landscapes left behind by the newspaper industry.
The work consists of thirteen separate newspapers printed on a rotary press and archived together with metal bindings, functioning collectively as a single archival photobook. At the same time, each section can also be detached and read individually as an independent newspaper. The structure of the work continuously moves between two states: photobook and newspaper, archive and circulation.
The Newspaper is a photobook produced using the newspaper itself as its medium. The project is set within the Kyoto Shimbun, one of Japan’s oldest regional newspapers with a history spanning more than 140 years. Even today, reporters continue travelling to remote mountain villages, while newspaper carriers deliver the news every day. Japanese photographer Kazuma Obara and writer Akihico Mori documented, through photographs and texts, one of the final landscapes left behind by the newspaper industry.
The work consists of thirteen separate newspapers printed on a rotary press and archived together with metal bindings, functioning collectively as a single archival photobook. At the same time, each section can also be detached and read individually as an independent newspaper. The structure of the work continuously moves between two states: photobook and newspaper, archive and circulation.
