“Far Away from Here ...” is now on sale !

I’m very pleased to announce the release of my new photo book, “Far Away from Here ...” 

It’s an attempt to visually rediscover Japan, far away from the center of Tokyo, that is,

the “singularity” of this country, and at the same time, a record of a journey of trying to get away from “myself”. Anyway, it is the first step in my exploration into the “old layers” of Japan.

The book is now available at the Blurb Bookstore or on my website.

For more information, please visit here !

Season’s Greetings!

All the best for you in 2025!

I plan to publish a photo book "Far Away from Here…" early next year based on this prototype that I’ve just posted on the web. The photographs in the book are taken from the results of three recent projects, and are the footprints of my travels over the past several years, both near and far.

At the root of my travels, there is always a “centrifugal force” at work. It’s the workings of my mind and body to detach from this excessively concentrated metropolis. Tokyo is a skin of “the present” that constantly has a high metabolism, and yet it lacks the body of “history” beneath it.

In this country, leaving Tokyo means traveling back to the past. For me, now in my mid-sixties, this journey back is almost a physiological need.

"C'est quoi pour vous la photographie ?" has been just released!

The CHIBI association in France has published an ambitious book of photography, “C'est quoi pour vous la photographie ?”. It can be called the theory of photography in words and pictures by 100 Japanese photographers, including Daido Moriyama, Yasumasa Morimura, Miyako Ishiuchi, Toshio Shibata, and others. I’m honored to be one of the contributors to this project. You can see the contents of the book from here, though the resolution isn’t high. Take a look, please!