‘Found in Translation’ is the result of a six-month collaboration between Nihon University College of Art, Tokyo, and London College of Communication, UAL. It features the work of eleven emerging photographers and artists—Noam Dee, Rikio Fujii, Kosuke Kitanaga, Hinako Kuwata, Yuto Odagiri, Niharika Pathak, Jasmine Rogers, Jialin Sun, Suzi Teal, Miku Yamauchi, and Shunsuke Yamawake—arranged into four thematic sections and complemented by specially commissioned essays by renowned writers and photography specialists.

In her essay ‘Dream Days’, Sasha Portis reflects on the processes through which dreams metabolise lived experience. In ‘Revisiting Woman of the Dunes’, Lee Mackinnon examines the connections between the 1964 Japanese film and contemporary climate crises, suggesting that survival lies in recognising interdependence through solidarity, care, and ecological awareness. Peter Lewis’s ‘In a Cold Light’ discusses photography as a paradoxical space between belief and disbelief, where images dwell in the uncanny realm of the imaginal, while Darian Leader in ‘Astonishing Leaps’ draws on Freud’s ‘The Interpretation of Dreams’ exploring how dreams unfold through seemingly illogical juxtapositions, forming parallels with the creative process.

The publication was edited by Susanna Brown and Sophy Rickett, and supported by the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, and University of the Arts, London.