Here is a book that could only have come from one person: a professional photographer who makes ceramic frogs as a hobby, then photographs his own creations with the same care he would give a commercial advertising shoot. The result is 156 pages of clay frogs lit, staged and framed like magazine products, and the effect is both funny and oddly beautiful.
Shinichiro Matsubara describes the pleasure of shooting his own work with unguarded delight, and that feeling carries through the whole collection. The frogs themselves grew out of things he noticed in ordinary daily life, shaped into clay without any particular system or plan. He calls them scattered and disjointed, which is exactly what gives them their charm — each one arrives with its own small mood, and no two seem to belong to the same series.
For anyone interested in Japanese studio ceramics, in object photography, or simply in the strange joy of a well-photographed frog, this is a book that rewards slow browsing. Potters will find ideas in the forms; photographers will study the lighting and staging.
The text is in Japanese, but the book is driven by its photographs, so the appeal carries across languages. Published by V2-Solution, 2024.
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