"Seiichi Furuya is an image maker who, over the past few decades, has become well loved for the intimate portraits of his late wife Christine Furuya-Gössler during the seven years they spent together, first as a couple, then husband and wife and later as parents. Defined by their soft mundanity and Seiichi's clear dedication to the life he and Christine had built together, his images are backdropped by the strange brutalist beauty of East Germany not long before the wall fell."
"His work has always felt like a stolen, precious insight into the life of a small family existing on the cusp of history. But the instance of their later context - Christine took her own life in 1985 after years of mental health struggles - has further imbued the images with an unshakable sense of sadness. What many people who are familiar with Seiichi's work may not know is that soon after meeting Seiichi in 1978, Christine herself picked up a camera and began creating."
""When Seiichi told us he had discovered a much larger archive of Christine's photographs, it felt essential to shift the spotlight onto her - to reveal her not just as a muse, but as an artist in her own right," says Cécile Poimboeuf-Koizumi, founder of Choose Commune and editor of the new book. To enhance the intimacy of Christine's work and to draw attenti"
Seiichi Furuya became known for intimate portraits of his late wife Christine Furuya-Gössler taken during seven years together as a couple, spouses, and parents. The images combine soft mundanity, familial dedication, and the brutalist East German backdrop shortly before the Berlin Wall fell. Christine took her own life in 1985 after years of mental health struggles, which has imbued the photographs with persistent sadness. Soon after meeting Seiichi in 1978, Christine began photographing, producing a short but distinctive body of work. Choose Commune and Seiichi worked to surface her archive and publish a book presenting over 130 of her images.
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