Towers of silence | Momoka Omote | Pinhole Books 2025 [SIGNED]

"This is a collection of photographs by up-and-coming young photographer Momoka Omote, featuring black and white images of crematorium chimneys throughout Japan. She finds meaning in death and the landscape of prayer in these chimneys, which are no longer needed in modern crematoriums and are gradually disappearing. She traveled across Japan, capturing these scenes with a refined gaze that seems to permeate even the atmosphere of the place. Questioning the negative images surrounding death and the modern Japanese view of life and death that tries to distance oneself from them, she has gathered these "silent towers" as peaceful, yet somehow divine, anomalies that exist naturally and close at hand in forests and cities." - From publisher's statement