Tokyo Ghost Busters | Yoshiyuki Uchibori | Kinkan publishing 2023

Tokyo Ghost Busters | Yoshiyuki Uchibori | Kinkan publishing 2023"Uchibori has been photographing and documenting demolition sites in Tokyo for over a decade while working on films as a still photographer. This book, Tokyo Ghost Busters, is a collection of about 200 of Uchibori's photographs of demolition sites. In recent years, many famous buildings from the prewar and postwar periods have been demolished. Demolition sites are usually enclosed, and we don't see them being torn down. Uchibori has visited the sites

A sense of humility emerges in consideration of the enormous scale

then in kanji and then in its phonetic reading

Light discoloring on the spine

when Alice was photographed

Otherwise clean beautiful copy

Against the backdrop of the era's spirit

Just as both judo and sumo wrestling involve the strategic transfer of energy from one person to another

Please mind that the photos of the interiors come from another

Because female photographers were a rarity back then

If I speak to you now

The golden title on the slipcase closed side is partially faded

His photographs capture the rugged beauty of the landscape