Fuji

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Dazzling and idiosyncratic photographs of contemporary Japan, celebrating extremes of beauty, the handprint of techno-culture, and the irony of documentary.Fuji, by the noted British photographer Chris Steele-Perkins, depicts the sacred mountain as a cultural nexus: a dynamic social phenomenon where tourism, farming, industry, religion, urbanisation, locomotion, housing and recreation, traditional ceremony and religion are all framed by the potent national symbol of the mountain. Fuji as seen by Steele-Perkins emerges as a meditation about modern Japan and Japanese life. The exquisite images offer a fresh and surprising view of Japan's iconic mountain, and an understanding of Japanese worldview as seen by an outsider who has penetrated its diversity with astonishing clarity, metaphysical insight, and profound complicity.