Catalogue of Nobuyoshi Araki's exhibition in Singapore, featuring Flowers by Araki at epSITE, EPSON Imaging Gallery, and Wanted: Dead and Alive - Works by the Genius Photo-Maniac, Nobuyoshi Araki at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts. The exhibition tracks the photo-diary of Araki through personal and object-like renditions; through to his Flowers series, where he snaps literally, cut flowers as simultaneously a moment of beauty and death. Bridget Tracy Tan wrote, 'Photography, according to Araki himself, is very much like death. "Women come to me to be murdered", he once said. It attempts to record memory, yet snapshots a cool, almost unreal sentiment - a reminder of what stops there and is never able to emerge beyond the frame. In some sense, this is what Araki's photo are unique in achieving. Individual pictures that appear part of a larger story (as in his serial works), but pictures that in themselves, are wordless and willfully independent. All this means is that we look at Araki's photos and wish they would tell a story in succession - yet they do not, they cannot. For each image is a moment killed at that time, de-linked from all the other "killed" moments.' Artist biography and introduction by Bridget Tracy Tan are provided in the catalogue.