Photography by Luca Bailey

Published by Tied Over Press

Sequence and Book Binding by Anna Edwards For Tied Over Press
Design by Emi Takahashi

First Edition Of 50 Japanese Stab Hand Bound Books

ISBN - 978-1-3999-8846-9

With special thanks,

My family for their love and infinite support of everything I do.

The Yukimoto Family for their heart warming kindness and endless generosity,

Anna Edwards, for her friendship over the years and limitless support for this project.

Emi Takahashi, for her thoughtful insight and beautiful design work.

Thank you to the following artists, without whom these photographs would simply not exist.

Ikko Narahara, Taki Koji, Takashi Hamaguchi, Daido Moriyama, Mashisa Fukase, Mitsugu Ōnishi, Sakiko Nomura, Eikoh Hosoe, Hara Hisaji, Kikuji Kawada, Shiihara Osamu, Takada Minayoshi, Nobuyoshi Araki, Shigeichi Nagano, Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Takuma Nakahira, Issei Suda and Hiroshi Hamaya

Susumu Yokota, Hiroshi Yoshimura, Hinako Omori, Satoshi Ashikawa, Masahiro Sugaya, Yoshiaki Ochi, Toshi Tsuchitori, Yoshio Suzuki, Fumio Miyashita, Motohiko Hamase, Yoshio Ojima and Akira Ito.

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Wanderer is a photographic series born from a period of emotional dislocation, a time when walking became less about joy and more about searching for something lost. Created during two separate periods in Japan, the work began unintentionally. The images emerged from long, aimless walks that became quiet acts of escape and reflection in the midst of growing personal tribulations.

What began as purposeless movement gradually revealed itself as a deeper search: for belonging, for stillness, for a sense of home - for all the things that felt missing.

During these solitary walks, one recurring figure kept reappearing: a lone raven. It crossed my path again and again, like a shadow, a witness, a double. At the time, I often found myself daydreaming about seeing the world from another perspective. Much of my view was from above, through the window five floors up, from the balcony overlooking the trees in the park.

In Japanese postwar photographic culture, the raven holds layered symbolism: a messenger, a mystery. The Japanese term for “wanderer” (旅烏) can also be interpreted as “bird of passage,” a phrase that seemed to describe both the raven and myself, two separate beings drifting through the same landscapes, unseen and searching.

This book is about that search, a quiet journey shaped by absence, longing, and the effort to see through another’s eyes.