It has been twenty years since Seiichi Furuya published his first photobook with the title “Mémoires” in 1989. This current publication is the fifth, entitled “Mémoires. 1984-1987,” and will be the final volume of the series.
From late 1982, Furuya’s wife Christine started exhibiting signs of schizophrenia and on October 7th, 1985, Republic Day of East Germany, she leapt from the 9th floor of their residence, ending her life. This photobook covers a time of the former East German Republic and the everyday life of the Furuya family—the time and culture of East Germany of the 1980s before the fall and the loss of a family. In this final Mémoires composition, the one loss intertwined with the other is a melody performed as a complex harmony between Furuya’s photography and an essay “Black Red Gold” on the theme of the Furuya family written by the East German genius, the late Einar Schleef.

Current solo exhibitions
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography "Mémoires." May 15th to July 19th, 2010
The Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum "Aus den Fugen" May 21st to August 31st, 2010