RINKO KAWAUCHI

" I love the details, the little things that surround us. In fact, everyday life fascinates me. Through my work, I seek to discover the richness of the world ," answers Rinko Kawauchi, when asked to define her work. This richness, she finds it in the moments and objects of ordinary life. A gnawed piece of watermelon, a teaspoon or a drop of water in a leaf: the photographer reveals the beauty of insignificant things with serenity and poetry.

Born in Japan in 1972, Rinko Kawauchi graduated from the Seian University of Art and Design. After a short career in advertising, she made a masterful entry into the world of photography in 2002, simultaneously publishing three books that revealed her to the general public. Other books followed, such as Aila (2004), Cui Cui (2005) and Illuminance (2011). Exhibited in France at the Rencontres d'Arles in 2004, she was welcomed the following year at the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain (Paris).

In Deauville, she brought that same eye to the beauty of the details of life, all those little things that surround us and that we don't have time to see. Coming to take her photos in July 2014, she strolled through the town, impressed by all the horses, fascinated by the and the sea competing in color variations.