Yusuke Sakai got a simple idea, and as usual, the simple ideas are the most touching. For Skins, he photographed just that, the ‘skins’ of different animals, so close you can see the texture, can imagine what it might feel like to touch. It is a somehow peculiar experience to look at these photos, because they make these animals come closer and at the same time become somehow alien. Some I’d like to touch, some I rather not and either way I can already feel on my fingertips the sensation I could have.
The charm of the series is both in this tactile sensations you get by looking and in the intimate-yet-alien feeling this close-up perspective gives.
Hippopotamus
Goat
African Flamingo
Elephant
Asiatic black bear
Emu
Japanese deer
King penguin
Bactrian camel
White bear
Giraffe
Arabian camel
Zebra
Goat
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