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"Sakhalin" is a collection of works by Japanese photographer Tatsuki Nitta. Born in Fukushima Prefecture in 1967, he studied under Katsuo Hanzawa, a master of commercial photography, and has been working as a freelancer since the late 1990s. This book is his breakthrough work, winning the 31st Hayashi Tadahiko Award in 2022 as well as the 47th Kimura Ihei Photography Award. For nearly 40 years until the end of World War II, Sakhalin (Karafuto) was under Japanese rule. Many Japanese, Chinese, and even Koreans were sent there as laborers, and even after the war, some people were unable to leave the area for various reasons, and some people still live there today. Nitta first visited the area in the 1990s, but at that time he was unable to talk much and could not even point his camera at the people. He returned in 2010, and since then, he has continued to capture something inexpressible on camera while carefully conversing with them. This is a very meaningful book that gives us many suggestions in this era when war is occurring in Russia. Published in 2023, second printing.