About
Who FUKAMI is, how it is made, and how to keep in touch.
Practice · Letter · Contact
Who
FUKAMI is an editorial practice run by one editor and a small circle of trusted collaborators. Everything here — the writing, the shelf, the photographs, the gatherings — passes through the same pair of hands before it is kept.
The name means seeing deeply. The practice is old and unremarkable: paying attention to a small number of things for a long time, and writing down what stayed.
Practice
Four ways the same editorial judgement takes form.
- 01
Editorial & long-form writing
Slow research and essays on photography, cinema, craft and the small rituals of daily life. Published here and, occasionally, in print.
- 02
Reading rooms & gatherings
Small evenings in Taipei and Kyoto — one bowl, two chapters, a long pause. By invitation, through the letter.
- 03
Editorial direction, on request
Quiet consulting for cultural institutions, hospitality projects and independent publications where atmosphere and judgement matter more than volume.
- 04
Objects, books, printed matter
A modest catalogue of things we make, print or keep close. Released when they are ready, not to a schedule.
The Letter
Once a month, we send one letter about what we have been noticing. An essay, a photograph, sometimes only a sentence. Nothing more.
Previously kept
- October· VIII
Walking, and the shape of an afternoon
- September· VII
Memory, as a way of holding still
- August· VI
Morning, and its small repetitions
- July· V
Winter light, in a summer month
To begin a conversation
Write to us at studio@fukami.press. Editorial direction, hospitality collaborations, and quiet requests are all read carefully.
Colophon
Set in EB Garamond and Inter, with Caveat for the handwritten marginalia. Photographs made on 35mm and kept as scans. Built slowly, on purpose.