Title: Scoffing Pig
Photographers: Nozomi Iijima
Date of publication: 2013
Place of publication: Japan
Language: Japanese/English
Dimensions of book: 40cm x 28cm
Number of pages: 40
Number of images:
Cover, Type of binding: Newspaper (Tabloid)
Type of printing: Newsprint
Type of paper: Newspaper
Printer: Reminders Photography Stronghold
Publisher: Reminders Photography Stronghold
Publication editor: Yumi Goto
ISBN:
Retail price: 1000 Yen
Summary of Project:
Excerpt “I grew up as a farmer’s daughter. My home sandwiched between a pigpen and a farmhouse and I often fell asleep to the sounds of pigs grunting and snorting at night. I have lived my life surrounded by the smell of pig feed and manure. When I was a school kid a classmate visited our farm as part of the school curriculum. After seeing the pigs caged in pens I remember her words, ‘I feel sorry for the animals.’
Feeling a silent, close sense of attachment to these animals is contrary to the hardened emotions when I think of them as livestock. These contradictory feelings are like a hardened stone rolling over and over in my heart.
These are our stories.”
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