
New Born
- Publisher
- Akaaka Art Publishing
- Year
- 2024
- ISBN
- 978-4-86541-189-8
- Specifications
- Softcover
225 x 188 mm
88 pages
Colour photographs
Planning by Mika Masui (NPO E-BeC)
Texts by the models, Japanese / English
Book design by Asuka Wakita
Portraits of twelve women who have had breast reconstruction after breast cancer, with the messages they wrote, photographed by Mika Ninagawa. It is the second photobook by the non-profit E-BeC, whose first, made in 2010 with nineteen women, has sold out. More than eighty women applied to be models. The book was made so that more women, wherever they live, can learn what reconstruction involves and find encouragement, since in Japan only about 13% of treated patients have the surgery and access to information still varies with region and age. Each model tells her own story in Japanese and English, and the pictures show cheerful, bright women, not to recommend surgery but as one piece of information a woman can use to decide for herself.