Eagle and Raven is a book that documents seven summers photographer Ariko Inaoka spent in Iceland photographing twin sisters Erna (Eagle) and Hrefna (Raven) as the sisters grew from 9 to 16 years of age.
Inaoka portrays the sisters (“we dream the same dreams sometimes”) in surreal, chimerical scenes, each image unexpected in displaying the deep bond the sisters share with each other and with their photographer. Nuanced vignettes about entering adulthood, as well as leaving childhood and innocence behind emerge as Inaoka explores the pervading nature of life in Raven and Eagle’s relationship with each other.
Ariko Inaoka (b. 1975, Kyoto, Japan) moved to the United States at the age of 17 and earned a BFA in photography from Parsons School of Design in New York. In 2011, after working as a photographer in New York and Tokyo, Inaoka decided to take over her family business, an ancestral restaurant in Kyoto that has been running since 1465.
Eagle & Raven is published by akaaka and available via shashasa.
