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"Tosa Midnight Diary" is a photobook by Japanese photographer Kazuo Tsunoda (1952-). Born in Kochi Prefecture and educated at the Osaka College of Photography, Tsunoda has pursued his own unique style of documentary photography, focusing on people's lives and the fringes of society. In 1999, he stayed in New York as a Cultural Affairs Agency Overseas Training Fellow for Artists, and won the 11th Hayashi Tadahiko Award for "New York Subway Story," which captured people gathering on the subway. He continues to observe the activities of human life both domestically and internationally, with works such as "Journey to Siberia" and "Manila Midnight Diary." This book compiles works taken in the night streets of his hometown, Kochi, from around 1984 to 1990. Starting with his relationship with his uncle who worked in a gay bar, he records the true faces of people who gather in the entertainment district and the scenes of the city emerging from the darkness of night. His unique monochrome style, using infrared film, creates intense contrast and a fantastical texture, giving a strange tension to the real landscapes. The photographs, a blend of glamour and solitude, intimacy and melancholy, convey the nights of provincial cities in the late Showa era and vividly imprint the presence of the people who lived there.