
Everyday Tokyo 2021
- Publisher
- Sokyusha
- Year
- 2022
- Specifications
- Hardcover, black and white
272 x 228 mm
64 pages
58 images
Limited edition of 300 copies
Edited by Michitaka Ota
Design: 塚本明彦 / 赤川延美 (typesetting)
Printing: 株式会社サンエムカラー
The third entry in Shoshi Okamoto's ongoing series of photographs taken in the streets of Tokyo, following Tokyo Summer 2020 and Tokyo 1985. Okamoto, who learned photography under the master photographers Daido Moriyama and Masahisa Fukase, captured the new everyday scenery of a Tokyo adapted to the new normal dictated by the Covid pandemic. Shot in black and white with wide angles, the photographs show streets sparsely populated, as if at random, by a scattered few masked pedestrians: a city on hold, slowed down but anxious to spring back to normal.