Grown up in Japan where many people traditionally co-habit with nature side by side and even worship Mother Nature, Takeshi Shikama devotes himself to portraying the respiration of forests as living things in his photographs as if he was listening to the breathing of them. Saddened by the fact that forests have been rapidly disappearing in most cities and that we have been losing our sense of affinity for forests, Shikama wishes to photograph them as a requiem for the nature. His feeling of appreciation and awe towards the mother nature are greatly expressed in the series Silent Respiration of Forests like a heartfelt dialogue.