Rinko Kawauchi’s A New Day is a “photographic picture-book,” in which Kawauchi’s words and photographs render a world and a sense of time for both the child and the adult. A life begins, a life ends; one finds something precious, one loses it. Images of beginning and ending intersect at a common point – these phenomena are connected. And in each of these scenes lies a new beginning; a “new day.” Here, Kawauchi uses short words and photographs to portray her own discoveries obtained through her experience of childbirth and motherhood. This is a first endeavor for Kawauchi, one in which she compiles photographs within the format of a children’s picture-book.