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Tomoyuki Sakaguchi

Publisher
Sokyusha
Year
2007
ISBN
978-4-904120-00-2
Specifications
Hardcover, no dust jacket, colour
226 x 310 mm
88 pages
57 images
Japanese
Edition of 1,000 copies
Edited by Michitaka Ota
Design: 原耕一
Printing: 大洋印刷

Tomoyuki Sakaguchi's debut photobook brings together photographs taken at night, with long exposures and digital editing, in the residential neighbourhoods of Tama, a large planned development in western Tokyo. The images turn the everyday suburban landscape into scenes that feel strange, even slightly menacing, yet they are not built on irony alone: from Tama's planned uniformity of preset shapes and colours the photographer draws out individuality, beauty and a surprising vitality. While the residents are presumably asleep, the available artificial light renders garages, driveways, walls and infrastructure such as utility poles as if they were elements of a carefully constructed model set. Martin Parr has described the photographer as exploring suburban scenes in and around Tokyo with an eye that is both disquieting and beautiful, one of the photographers contributing to the revival of interest in night shooting.

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