Publisher/赤々舎

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The Bonin Islanders is a collection of works by Japanese photographer Shinichiro Nagasawa. Born in Tokyo in 1977. He studied photography under Tamotsu Fujii from 2001 and became independent in 2006. He won the 49th Kimura Ihei Photography Award for his documentary Mary Had a Little Lamb, which explores the memories and absences left in Japan after World War II. He is a photographer who is attracting attention now. This book is a collection of works published in May 2021, focusing on the people living in the Ogasawara Islands. It carefully captures the islanders and landscapes of Ogasawara, and vividly depicts the daily lives of Western immigrants who live on a different time axis from urban areas, the generations rooted in the islands, and the people involved in fishing and plasterwork. The tranquil visuals, which exude a sense of trust between the photographer and the subject, highlight the human drama that is nurtured in the unique place of the island, and the gaze that goes back and forth between the "outside perspective" and the "inner perspective" intersect. This book records the culture of Japan's remote islands from a cultural anthropological perspective, and at the same time is highly regarded as a rare documentary work that is also a highly accomplished piece of photographic art and breathes the time of the islands and the stories of their people.