MORE THAN ONE WORLD New Japanese Photography 50 Years On | VV.AA. | Aka Aka 2025

MORE THAN ONE WORLD New Japanese Photography 50 Years On | VV.AA. | Aka Aka 2025"Nearly every major cultural development has been driven by a sustained, almost obsessive passion. Japanese photography today enjoys worldwide recognition not only thanks to the efforts of people like John Szarkowski, Shoji Yamagishi, Sandra Phillips, and Ryuichi Kaneko, but also because of the generations before and after them who have preserved and passed on the necessary spark. I believe that no matter how much we may strive for objectivity, our

The photo book “Tenko” is an intersection between Hanayo’s photos

commercial and portrait photography

Yoshiyuki Okuyama has pursued a prolific career as a photographer and filmmaker

actively publishing and exhibiting his own works on the one hand while also creating a memorable body of projects on commission on the other

housed in a custom slipcase

he published a zine entitled “salaryman” with Morel Books in black and white and limited to 150 copies and which immediately sold out

newly reappropriated body

I find it mysterious

It was only after learning Japanese

there is dirt between the acetate jacket and the dustjacket

and Gong Li in unguarded moments between takes

On the top of the spine the dustjacket and the vinyl jacket have a very small tear