A City Ruled by Deer...

In 2011, a photographer from Kanagawa, Yoko Ishii, tripped over a deer at a crossroads, and from that point on, she decided to focus her lens on the animals living in Nara. In this Japanese ancient capital, sika deer are as commonplace as humans. Nara is a sanctuary for sika deer. They are not only protected by law here, but also revered as companions and deities. Killing deer was still punishable by death until the 17th century; however, many accidents occur each year where tourists feed them to their deaths. Ishii's work captures the strangeness of the city: in this city, these deer are unaffected by human-created hierarchies. In her series titled 'Beyond the Border', she photographed deer in Nara and Miyajima. Ishii intentionally includes only deer in her work, which gives her work a surreal quality. They walk down the streets, enter gift shops, and then stop at crossroads to be fed by little deer. In a man-made world, humans are strangely absent, and the sika deer seem to rule the entire world.

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