涙 - Namida

In collaboration with fashion designer Edwina Hörl

A powerful tsunami, triggered by the Great East Japan Earthquake, struck the east coast of Tōhoku on Friday, 11 March 2011. By claiming thousands of lives and destroying the livelihoods of many more, it starkly revealed the transience of material values and of life itself.

The photographic project "涙 - Namida" (Japanese for "tears"), created by Swiss photographer Andreas Seibert and Austrian fashion designer Edwina Hörl, combines fashion with analogue instant photography.

Impossible instant film was chosen, because its texture and its chemical transformations reflect the transience of things. Andreas Seibert created collages from individual instant images, inevitably creating gaps that reflect on the profound loss and voids caused by the disaster of 11 March.

"涙 - Namida" was created in dedication to all those affected by the tsunami.