Publisher/ICP / Steidl

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"Asakusa Portraits" is a collection of works by Hiroo Kikai (1945-2020), one of Japan's leading photographers after the war. Hiroo Kikai, a photographer who dedicated his life to portraits, sadly passed away in October 2020. For more than 40 years since the 1970s, Asakusa has been my life's work. From morning until night, he stands in a corner of the shrine grounds, waiting for what he feels is a ``person with a strong presence,'' and has captured more than 1,000 unknown people on his camera. Some have tattoos, some have physical disabilities, some are homeless. . He has taken on people who at first glance we might be afraid to look at them seriously, and elegantly portrayed human nature such as their shyness and the kindness hidden deep within their hearts. The beauty and preciousness of human beings are portrayed by the sincere humanity of the photographer, rather than the one being photographed. It can be imagined that Kikai's work of searching for subjects and capturing them on camera was a kind of spiritual training in which he disciplined his own mind.