Half Awake and Half Asleep in the Water

First Edition, 2007. 80 pages. 

Book measures 12 x 13 inches. Includes 68 color plates, and a short text by Martin Parr. Half Awake and Half Asleep in the Water is the second title in the Parr / Nazraeli Edition of Ten. Narahashi's work has been exhibited in Japan to wide acclaim, but never published in book form until this publication. These photographs were made while the artist stood chest-deep in the ocean facing the shoreline; through them, she manages to extract the viewer's mind from its surroundings, and one finally succumbs to the hallucinatory power of the ocean. In the words of esteemed photographic historian Kotaro Iizawa, "the feeling of being stranded, however, is strangely comforting."