In 1973, Seiichi Furuya left Japan for Europe aboard the Trans-Siberian Railway . He arrived in Austria, where he first settled in Vienna, before moving to Graz, where he met Christine Gössler in 1978. From that day on, he began to photograph her, in the privacy of his home in Graz, but also during his trips to the abroad, to Germany, England, Italy... and Japan, his farthest destination.
Christine studied art history and worked for the radio, making documentary programs. After the birth of her son in 1981, she became increasingly involved in the world of theater. While she was engaged in her acting lessons, she began to show signs of schizophrenia. Christine committed suicide in East Berlin in 1985. Since Christine's disappearance, Furuya has never stopped going through her file.
This initiative was featured in a series of five books titled Mémoires , published between 1989 and 2010, and in Face to Face , published by Chose Commune in 2020. In 2018, reels of super 8 film were found in his attic by Seiichi Furuya . One of them was a recording of the first trip he took with Christine, in Bologna in 1978, a few weeks after they met. As an attempt to recall a trip he had completely forgotten about, Seiichi Furuya began extracting still images from the film, frame by frame . These images make up his new series First Trip to Bologna 1978 . Along with this series, in the same book, there is also a newly edited version of Last Trip to Venice 1985 , the series that features photographs from Seiichi and Christine's last trip, before Christine took her own life.
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