Publisher/彩流社

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Japanese photographer Iwase Yoshiyuki's photo collection "Portraits of Female Divers: Iwawada, Chiba 1931-1964 (revised and expanded edition)". Nakamura Yoshinobu is famous as a photographer who has followed female divers, but Iwase Yoshiyuki is the original photographer who followed female divers his whole life in his hometown of Onjuku, Chiba. Iwase Yoshiyuki was born in 1904 to the famous family that produces Iwanoi sake, which boasts a history of nearly 300 years. While he was the owner of the brewery as his main occupation, he continued to photograph female divers as an amateur photographer for over 50 years as his life's work. He held his first solo exhibition at Matsuya Ginza in 1993, and in 1957 he won the Prime Minister's Award at the Japan Photography Art Exhibition sponsored by the Mainichi Shimbun. Onjuku, where she was born and raised, was once a village where women worked partly as farmers and partly as fishermen, diving into the sea to catch abalone, turban shells, and seaweed to make a living, and at its peak there were apparently as many as 400 female divers. It is no wonder that this lifestyle intrigued the photographer, and he has produced a number of wonderful photographs that beautifully capture the energy and healthy beauty of the female divers who endure the harsh and strenuous work they endure. She published her first photo book privately in 1983 at the age of 79, and has since undergone several revisions, but this book is an expanded and revised version published in 2002.