Reborn by Kazuaki Koseki

Reborn captures momentary drawings born from the repeated cycle of life's energy. The photographs were taken from the air above wetlands in Japan’s Yamagata Prefecture that have formed within volcanic craters from eruptions tens of thousands of years ago. Here, snow mixes with water and turns to ice as temperatures drop. As the sun rises, the ice returns to a liquid, revealing delicate patterns when the landscape is viewed from above. These patterns change repeatedly due to slight changes in temperature, the amount of snow, the wind, heat from wetland plants and the slightest flow of water. The unpredictability of these events, which repeat like the cycle of life, remind Kazuaki Koseki of the moment when a living creature is reborn.