
Tokyo Summer 2020
- Publisher
- Sokyusha
- Year
- 2021
- Specifications
- Hardcover, black and white
272 x 228 mm
64 pages
59 images
English / Japanese
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
Tokyo's Covid summer of 2020, documented in street photographs. Shoshi Okamoto, a disciple of Daido Moriyama and Masahisa Fukase, spent the summer of 2020 walking through the city and capturing the scenes unfolding in the streets. His black-and-white images engage their human subjects from a distance, positioning them in the scenery like extras in a film or stagehands preparing a set; as a series the somewhat melancholic yet hopeful pictures form a larger picture, less like the pieces of a mosaic than like disjointed memories. In the afterword Okamoto tells of a big map of Tokyo on his living-room wall on which he marked the places he had visited with his camera, and of saving a dying kitten in a town by a river, picked up in autumn by his newly found foster parents.