The inspiration behind photographer Asako Shimizu’s ethereal photo series, ‘On Her Skin’, stemmed from an image that she stumbled upon in a Japanese guidebook in the mid-1990s.
The image of a salt flat in Bolivia moved her to travel to the South American country in 2006, where she found herself at the world’s largest salt flat, Salar de Uyuni, which stands at 12,000 feet above sea level and spans more than 4,000 square miles.
Shimizu recreated the infinite horizons that seemed to engulf the salt flat in her photos, producing scenes that seem otherworldly and beautiful.
With her Hasselblad 500 C/M film camera, Shimizu carefully composed her photographs, letting the vast clouds, blue skies, and empty land fill up her frame while drawing the viewers’ eyes to the lone figures hidden in the distance.
Take a look at Shimizu’s breathtaking work below.
[via My Modern Met, images by Asako Shimizu]