Pre-Sale Now Live: Weekend by Victor Sira
Includes a Signed 5" × 7" C-Print
Shipping: Starts July 21
Publication Details
Publisher: Bookdummypress, Tokyo
Year: 2026
Format: Softcover
Pages: 192
Dimensions: 8 1/2 × 5 3/4 inches
Text: Includes a short essay by Victor Sira
Issued with a signed 5" x 7" color print
Published on the occasion of Victor Sira’s upcoming solo exhibition Weekend at IG Photo Gallery, Tokyo (July 12–August 25, 2026).
The images in Weekend circle a present already beginning to erode — glimpses of a modernity caught in its own bubble, and in its limits. What feels immediate slips away; what remains does so unevenly, partially revealed, or not at all.
Photographed across New York, New Jersey, Montreal, and Japan in 2025, the work approaches the city at a remove. Wide, observational views replace proximity — a distance that invites reflection rather than immersion, watching how people move within the systems that shape them: cities, families, forms of escape.
"I've always been drawn to images described as cold or distant — images that seem removed from emotion. To me, they suggest another kind of curiosity: a form of attention that observes, measures, and tries to understand."
Pre-Sale Now Live: Weekend by Victor Sira
Includes a Signed 5" × 7" C-Print
Shipping: Starts July 21
Publication Details
Publisher: Bookdummypress, Tokyo
Year: 2026
Format: Softcover
Pages: 192
Dimensions: 8 1/2 × 5 3/4 inches
Text: Includes a short essay by Victor Sira
Issued with a signed 5" x 7" color print
Published on the occasion of Victor Sira’s upcoming solo exhibition Weekend at IG Photo Gallery, Tokyo (July 12–August 25, 2026).
The images in Weekend circle a present already beginning to erode — glimpses of a modernity caught in its own bubble, and in its limits. What feels immediate slips away; what remains does so unevenly, partially revealed, or not at all.
Photographed across New York, New Jersey, Montreal, and Japan in 2025, the work approaches the city at a remove. Wide, observational views replace proximity — a distance that invites reflection rather than immersion, watching how people move within the systems that shape them: cities, families, forms of escape.
"I've always been drawn to images described as cold or distant — images that seem removed from emotion. To me, they suggest another kind of curiosity: a form of attention that observes, measures, and tries to understand."
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