Alexandre Morvan 'Cherry Trees'

GoSee Book Highlight : Alexandre Morvan 'Cherry Trees' – Traces of Transience and the Transfer of Fictional Worlds into Our Present (Kehrer Verlag)

French photographer Alexandre Morvan links the Japanese cherry blossoms with daily life during the pandemic and the dark worlds of dystopian anime. The photographs in Cherry Trees – recently published by Kehrer Verlag as a compact coffee table book – were taken in the spring of 2020 in Japan.

Spring, the time of cherry blossoms, symbolically represents the transience and fragility of life – and in 2020, this moment coincided with the outbreak...