The magnetic pull of Tokyo draws youth from across Japan. Some arrive for school, graduates in black suits flood in for interviews with big companies, and others, like Ikuro Suzuki, arrive with a camera around the neck and two cardboard boxes under the arm and check into a dormitory for itinerant labourers. He had left his mother and brother in a one-room apartment and a life of dusk-to-dawn work in a bar in Shizuoka, and soon found work as a scaffold erector, joining a crew of rough men doing dangerous labour suspended above the skyline. In reaction to this pressure cooker of out-of-town loneliness, male camaraderie and physical exhaustion he points his camera along a straight line of vision, again and again, at his co-workers and friends, at skyscraper views and cramped Tokyo bars, at the food and the women that make up his life. Thousands of colour prints weave a rich personal tale that he physically shaped into hand-made photobooks, work for which he received the Grand Prize of the Canon New Cosmos of Photography in 2013. This is the first of twelve books by Suzuki, an ambitious project to publish one new volume each month in 2016.