Histoires humaines
Mathieu Ciarlet — “I No Longer Work, I Live Happiness”
Paris, August 2026. In a small restaurant in the Marais, the photographer Erick photographed a cook and listened to him tell the story of how he had come this far. Mathieu Ciarlet became a cook at fifty. In a narrow street of the Marais, in Paris’s 4th arrondissement, near the Centre Pompidou, there is a small restaurant of about twenty seats: C’est Comme à...
Histoires humaines
Céline Aieta — On the Other Side of the Given Path
Early September 2026, Paris. While photographing an artist, the photographer Erick listened to her tell the story of how she had come this far. Céline Aieta makes photographs and paintings in Paris. The body she paints is, more often than not, her own. There is one question Human Light asks everyone it records: what does a good life mean to you? Her answer was...
Histoires humaines
Lisa Mimura, My Japan — Kept Alive by Hand
Based in Hiroshima, the general incorporated association My Japan works to pass Japanese cultural tradition and the appeal of its regions on to the next generation. Its representative director is Lisa Mimura. A festival staged in a shrine, a walk up a mountain at dawn, a brush-making workshop: her work looks, at first, unusually broad. Yet all of it comes from a single aim...
Communautés et initiatives
A Chance Photograph Is Not Skill: Nishimoto Kazutami and Yūbijuku
Nishimoto Kazutami, who runs the photography school Yūbijuku, spent many years working with images from the side that presents them, long before he taught anyone to make them. After graduating from Kanazawa College of Art, he worked in advertising and the record industry in Tokyo, then set out on his own as an art director. He created album covers for many of Japan’s defining...
Histoires humaines
Daichi Monden — What Remains After the Festival
Born in Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima, Daichi Monden never left this land. Nearly forty years in television, and the years since he founded his own company. While so many set their sights on the capital, Monden stayed, and made the times where people gathered in this city. Yet the truest shape of his work shows not in the crowds themselves, but in what appears once they...
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