About the Japanese photographer, Takashi HOMMA (b.1962)

"Takashi HOMMA studied photography at Nihon University College of Art but left in 1984 to take a job as an in-house photographer at a Tokyo advertising agency. In 1991, he moved to London to work as a photographer for i-D magazine. He was awarded a Kimura Ihei Commemorative Photography Award for the project 'Tokyo Suburbia'. A major retrospective of his work opened at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, in 2010. Takashi HOMMA currently lives in Tokyo." (© Lensculture)

Photo books by Takashi HOMMA

  • 'Tokyo Suburbia (2000), 'Tokyo Children' (2001); 'Stars and Stripes. New York' (2002); Tokyo and my Daughter' (2006), 'New Waves' (2007, 2014); 'Tokyo' (2008); 'First, Jay Comes' (2009); 'Trails' (2009, 2019), 'M' (2010), 'New Documentary' (2011); 'Diaries. 2010-2011' (2011); 'Mushrooms From The Forest' (2011); 'Portrait' (2012, together with Mikako ICHIKAWA); 'Take as Long as You Might Take, You Might Take Long' (2013); 'Scandinavian Mushroom' (2015); 'The Narcissistic City (2016); 'A Song for Windows' (2016); 'Looking Through: Le Corbusier Windows' (2019); 'Every Building on Ginza Street' (2019); 'Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji' (2023), 'Tokyo Olympia' (announced)

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more books with contribution by Takashi HOMMA
  • 'Daido Moriyama: Lost Home' (2013, together with works by Harvey BENGE, JH ENGSTRÖM, Roe ETHRIDGE,  Ron JUDE, Christian PATTERSON, Bertien van MANEN, Slavica PERKOVIC as well as by Terri WEIFENBACH); 'Stephen Shore: Selected Works 1973-1981' (2017);