Publisher/新潮社

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Japanese photographer Yuji Tsuruga's photo book “Gunkanjima-Abandoned Island Landscape”. After entering the Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Design major, began studying photography through self-study, and when he was in school, he knew the existence of Nagasaki Prefecture and Hashima "commonly known as Gunkanjima" Stayed for about 3 months. After that, while teaching at Nagoya College of Art and Design, he worked on graphic design and photography, and in 1984 went to Gunkanjima again. Once an island that flourished with coal mining, and where high-rise housing and mining buildings were lined up and boasted the highest population density in Japan, it became unmanned with the end of the coal mine and turned into a shell city. Tsuruga has already seen the ghost of his father and mother on the island where life and death come together, between this world and the next world, where there is a strange atmosphere and strange comfort, Will keep working and live in the camera. A book of silent messages from things abandoned and waiting for death through architecture, landscape, interior, and still life.