Japanese photographer Rinko Kawauchi captures a divine beauty in the most quiet moments of life. Her 6X6 format film photographs hold a brilliant innocence through their portrayal of the natural world, offering up quiet narratives that tell of movement, cycles, life and death. In Yohji Yamamoto’s A#2, photographs from her series ‘aila’ have been republished, in conjunction with their exhibition at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain in Paris, France.

The world ‘aila’ is Turkish for ‘family’, and as such this theme can be seen filtered through the series – from the hive of bees, to the clustered, foamy bubbles, or an unfurling flowerbud – all carry a unique interpretation of family through their different qualities. Showing the ideas of naivety, growth, birth, groups, hope, ambition and struggle, the images are effective when shown together in a series that demonstrates the wider view of the work, rather than each photograph holding sufficient meaning in itself. Though undeniably beautiful in their own right, the serial context allows access to a wider understanding – in a similar way to heritage and the human condition, that also exists and thrives within groups.