I, Oblomov, exhibition video, 2018. Lumière Brothers Center for Photography, Moscow. Curator: Katerina Zueva. This autoethnographic project explores the classic 19th century novel Oblomov, whose eponymous protagonist seems to do little but lie on on a sofa
Dneprodzerzhinsk, 2015. From the I, Oblomov series. Is Oblomov just lazy or does he possess some kind of stoic wisdom? Kuwajima looks to the book for keys to decipher the Russian mentality and wonders if its ideas still apply nowadays
I, Oblomov, book video, 2017. The book won the Photobookfest 2017 competition organised by the Lumière Brothers Center for Photography in Moscow
Repatriation exhibition, 2019. Peresvetov Pereulok Gallery, Moscow. The project shows an unexpected connection between the Siberian gulags and driftwood in Iceland
Repatriation, 2019. The concept is based on biographies of gulag prisoners in the Krasnoyarsk region as well as on dendrochronology research that proves the route of the driftwood from the Yenisey river to Iceland
Repatriation exhibition video, 2019. Peresvetov Pereulok Gallery, Moscow. Curator: Alexandra Kiseleva
Kokpar (near Shymkent, Kazakhstan), 2012. From the Eurasia series. The artist actively travelled around Central Asia and the Volga region from 2010 to 2015
Shorykyol (Mari New Year), Shorunzha village, Mari El republic, 2014. From the Eurasia series
Chickens. Priozersk region, Kazakhstan. From the Eurasia series
Pamir Mountains, 2012. From the Trail series. Kuwajima travelled around the Tajik Pamir mountains along the Afghan border and was able to photograph a long trail on the other side of the river separating the two countries
Trail exhibition view, 2016. Montpellier, France
Trail book video. The book won the 2016 Maribor Photobook Festival (Slovenia). Video by contest organisers
From the Tundra Kids series, 2015. In the Vorkuta region, a boarding school for Nenets children houses them from September to April. Here, they receive formal education, while their traditional schooling still happens in the tundra
Tundra Kids book video. Published by Schlebrügge.Editor, 2015
City of Transformers, 2016. Fascinated by the simultaneously futuristic and traditional cityscape of Kazan (Tatarstan, Russia), Kuwajima documents by placing somewhat awkward “transformers” against its background