Yuki Furusawa is a Japanese photographer and book artist whose work explores themes of family, memory, and intimacy. She reveals the emotional weight of personal relationships, often drawing from her own family experiences. Furusawa creates artist books that extend these narratives through layered storytelling and tactile materials. She earned an MA in Photography from SCAD Hong Kong (2017) and has been shortlisted for photobook awards such as Fiebre Dummy (2018), Charta (2022), and BUP (2024). In 2024, she won the Festival di Fotografia a Capri. Her work has been exhibited internationally.
Bye Bye Home Sweet Home
2023–ongoing
7 x Fine art print, 2025, framed and unframed.
Furusawa’s work “Bye Bye Home Sweet Home” powerfully demonstrates how emotions can become attached to objects. Her documentary approach is paired with staged portraits taken around her grandmother’s house. Due to an urban development project, the home—built 40 years ago by her now-deceased grandfather—had to be demolished.
When the family began packing their belongings, they discovered a multitude of items her grandmother had kept: baby clothes belonging to her mother, unworn for 60 years, and her grandfather’s suits and ties, untouched for 30 years. For her, each of these objects held stories and emotions linked to every person who had once interacted with them—items that had to be preserved. Each object evoked memories of moments past, almost like looking at a photograph.
The house held every story of the past 40 years, all kept alive through the grandmother. Furusawa set out to preserve these objects photographically in her own way, together with the family, and through this project created a powerful insight into the small yet vast world of emotional memories and the connections we form with the things that surround us.
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