Akichi wa umi ni se o mukete iru - Vacant Space | Hiroki Urabe | Fugensha 2024 [SIGNED]

Akichi wa umi ni se o mukete iru - Vacant Space | Hiroki Urabe | Fugensha 2024 [SIGNED]"This work "The Vacant Lot Has Its Back on the Sea" originates from the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011. Urabe, who was in Tokyo at the time, felt a strong sense of discomfort in a society where the media aired shocking images every day, enthusiastically called for "solidarity," and then forgot about it. Nine years later, as the pandemic spread across the world and words like "self restraint" and "stay home" began to fly around, Urabe

rich of inserts and fold outs

" -  from the text by Robert Slifkin

Then the areas abandoned by the mining industry are taken into consideration

This small elegant book gathers the photos sessions made by Misato Kuroda in Jinbocho Gallery

There are a few light stains on the first and last pages

printed in the '80 by Nippon Geijutsu Shuppan

loose bound sheets of different format encolosed in double cardboard box

Printed in 2001 by Mandarake in a regular and limited edition

Comprising texts by Yojiro Ishizaka

This copy has the slipcase closed side discolored

I remain in my photographs

I had the opportunity to revisit my archive of negatives and contact sheets from the 1980s