Tsuru no Ongaeshi The series was made with a group who has supported to victims of Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. All kimono materials used for this series were sent from a kimono store owner who was a victim, and there kimonos were no longer for sale because of the tsunami disaster. The support group leader has changed the use of kimono to turn them into an object of memory for the victims. She contacted people all around the world to ask them to use these kimonos to make patch work tapestries. Iku Kageyama was asked to use them for a …

“The world according to Shiro” Shiro (literally “white” in Japanese) is the name of a cat that Yasuhiro Ogawa met in one small island called Hatoma-jima, a part of the Ryukyu Islands. The picture presented for Neko Project is made of 9 photos. The one in the center, Shiro’s picture, is the center of a kind of mandala, a spiritual and ritual geometric configuration of a map in Buddhism. The pictures around the picture of the cat are elements of nature related to Shiro’s daily life and its environment. Yasuhiro Ogawa illustrates that way in a more vividly way the life …

In the attached picture, we are at the beginning of March when we can still feel the cold weather. The shovel in the shade is the only remainder of the January heavy snowfall of January. The cat bathing in the sunshine taught me a message : spring is very near! This picture includes winter and spring coexisting. nekoyuhi.blog.fc2.com © Chiaki Yao

Thank you ! « I accompanied my husband to Holland for a year, between 2015 and 2016, for his residency. Unlike my husband who had work to do, I was almost in a housewife situation, and without a daily routine, I was often confused. But one day I realized that a big male cat appeared at about the same time and came to spy on me, and gradually he came closer and ran away right after his meal was over. But it was impossible to tame him. He was even trying to force the small opening of the door. Every day …

About twenty years ago, I took this picture of a park slide and a cat, it was my encounter with photography. This photo was not only that of a cat in a park I photographed, but once printed, it had appeared to me as the whole universe. What I realized when I continued to photograph street cats, is that the places where cats can exist pleasantly, are also the places where mankind can live comfortably. I stopped looking at the world with my own measurements and realized how important it was in truth, from time to time, to look at …

It is a cat that Takahiro Shirai photographed on the shore of the Setonaikai (Seto Inland Sea) in Okayama Prefecture. Let’s feel the moment and listen to the photographer telling the story. « The twilight falls, everything becomes dark. At the moment the cat jumps, I take this picture when the jumping cat appears as a silhouette. Let’s be happy lookig at the picture and feel the beauty of the sea and the movement of the cat. » Another photo shows the silhouette of a cat under the moon. « That night, the sky, without being a sky full of star, rises my …

Lost cat – Nekosagashiteimasu Just cats to be happy !   White cat – Shironeko One day I was visiting a city for the first time. I met an unknown cat and this cat seems to tell me « please take my picture ! » Isn’t it always like this when you take picture of a cat ?   instagram.com/kinoc00/ ©Hidero Kinoshita      

Cat short stories « Twin » cats Both cats show their faces at the same time over the top of the house wall in front of my older sister’s house. Apparently they are not residents from her neighbours’ home, they are stray cats. But the neighbours fed them and were taking care of them. They even found names and gave them love. On the left part of the photo, the cat has been called Miki and on the right Chacha (this cat is brown and in Japanese “cha” means “brown”). They were often together and once I was on a visit to …

For a better cat life … Aoki Kanjo loves cats and has two cats at home. He has already seen kittens growing up with their mom after sheltering them. All those cats were cats abandonned cats in the streets or rescued cats. Nowadays he still photographs cats and actively gets involved in animal protection. He is in charge of checking the health status or monitoring the living conditions of stray cats, anykind of cats living outside. Congratulations Aoki ! For this interview he proposed us two pictures he took in a Tokyo temple. The first one with a black cat …

For Syotaro Hayashi, just like him who lives in Osaka in the middle of the city and buildings, stray cats also exist in a similar way and it is perhaps to leave a trace that Syotaro HAYASHI takes pictures of them to leave a ” trace ” of them. Rather than the term ” work or photo”, Syotaro Hayashi prefers the word “trace” (as a proof, a recording) to describe those photos. « The photo I propose here is the one among a few thousand photos I have taken of stray cats, the one in which I feel life with the most intensity. It’s …