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Background information
Finnish photographer Nina KORHONEN deals about a part of the Kochi prefecture, Japan. The photographer has visited there and documented alldays life at Shikoku in the beginning 2010s as artist-in-residency.
"Shikoku is part of Japan that was industrialized late and many still lives mainly on agriculture and fishing. For a long time, the island was seen as hopeless in terms of the modernization process, but today it is one of the areas in Japan where the inhabitants say they are the happiest and have the highest quality of life." (© Yukiko Duke, 2022)
Content
The self published photo volume 'Handmade' by Nina KORHONEN is limited to 500 copies and contains over eighty color photographs, often double-paged, surrounded by with white space. The images are showing the alldays-life 2014-2018 in Kochi Prefecture. The text by Yukiko Duke is written in Swedish in the beginning and in Japanese & English at the end of the book.