The Last Gaze Is Yours

• Photographer
  Yushi Kaisyakuji
• Photo Date
  2024.06~2025.06

These portraits hold no humans—yet humanity burns within them. Lions, monkeys, foxes, leopards, even the silent penguin: each gaze carries fear, tenderness, rage, defiance. They do not look at each other. They look at you. By stripping away color, I force you into their world, where emotion leaps across the borders of species. This series is unfinished until your eyes meet theirs. In that collision, you are no longer a spectator—you are the final subject, the last creature in this chain of gazes.

Yushi Kaisyakuji is a Japan-based photographer whose work centers on black-and-white portraits of wildlife, seeking to reveal the emotional architecture that lives beneath the surface of each creature. Rather than documenting appearances, he strives to capture the inner pulse—the quiet dignity, tension, and resilience—that defines a living being. His approach follows the tradition of photographers who believed that the camera can carve out the soul of its subject, not merely its outline.