Cuny Janssen: Yoshino

With 19 major cross‑format photographs, Cuny Janssen has gathered together not only captivating and sensitive nature shots from Yoshino in her unusual book of photographs, but has also included a small anthology of Japanese poetry compiled by Jos Vos, which the Dutch Japan specialist rounds up with a travel essay, “A fox in Yoshino”. In a way rivalled by almost no other contemporary photographer, Cuny Janssen knows how to structure her books to suit the given topic — in Yoshino for example she increases the calm and contemplative mood of her photographs with a selection brittle poetry that celebrates of this site of Japanese longing.