Publisher/水声社

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"Kasbaba - To Survive This Everyday Life" by Japanese photographer Takano Ryuta (1963). Takano, who won the Kimura Ihei Award for Photography in 2006 for his photobook "IN MY ROOM," has long pursued photographic expression surrounding the body, sexuality, the city, and everyday life. Since 1999, he has continued his "Daily Photography" project, taking at least one photograph a day, and has consistently focused his attention on the ordinary things that exist around him. "Kasbaba" is a word coined by Takano, meaning "the plural of a place (ba) like trash," and is a series that captures urban places that would normally be overlooked and passed by without their value being recognized, such as alleys, roads, and gaps between buildings. This book is a catalog published in conjunction with his solo exhibition held at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum in 2025, and includes works ranging from "Kasbaba" to his representative works "IN MY ROOM" and "Daily Photography," as well as fixed-point photography of Tokyo Tower, "Shadows" which he worked on after the Great East Japan Earthquake, and "CVD19" from the COVID-19 pandemic. This book offers an overview of Takano's long-standing activities, in which he viewed observing the nameless everyday life as a way of "surviving" while experiencing disasters, infectious diseases, and urban changes.