Publisher/Zen Foto Gallery

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"Hong Kong 2019 (Signed)" is a collection of works by Japanese photographer Takehiko Nakafuji (1970-). Based in Tokyo since the 1990s, Nakafuji is one of Japan's leading street photographers, capturing the energy of people on the streets in the bustling streets of Shinjuku and Shibuya, as well as in cities across Asia and Eastern Europe. While inheriting the lineage of urban snapshots pioneered by Japanese photography since Daido Moriyama, he has built his own unique world with an intense sense of distance that makes you feel as if you are physically entering the crowd, and a powerful monochrome expression that fixes the chaos of the city directly onto the screen. This book is a collection of works taken in 2019, when Nakafuji revisited Hong Kong approximately 25 years after his first visit in 1994. Although this period coincides with the time when the pro-democracy movement attracted global attention, this work does not aim to document the events themselves in a journalistic manner. The fervor of the protests, the watchful gazes of the people, and the everyday life that continues alongside them are all captured on the same plane, making the entire city appear as a single living organism. What began as a journey to trace past memories has transformed into a portrait of Hong Kong during a turbulent era. This book is a condensed expression of the unique perspective of Takehiko Nakafuji, who has continuously listened to the pulse of the city. Signed by the photographer .