Tako

The zine presents a photographic journey of different octopus living in the Seto Inland Sea by the port of Mihara, Hiroshima prefecture.
Photography by Nils Edström
Japan, June 2021

"The octopus doesn’t swim fast enough to lose me. I am wearing swimming fins and goggles. As I get closer to the octopus I find it sitting on a medium low grass patch. With nothing else around, with no options to hide, I can interact with it. It changes its liquid body, giving itself intimidating poisonous looking horns. I swim around the octopus, observing it, as it watches me, judging my movement, judging for how much longer I will last underwater."

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Risograph photozine
195 x 260 mm
36 pages
Staple bound
Softcover, B/W recto verso poster included
First edition of 100 copies
Designed by Laia Bonastre
Printed in Paris, Quintal Atelier, November 2021
Special thanks to Chloé, Maho Shimizu & Teruyuki Hamamatsu