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Statement of the photographer, Koji ONAKA.
"I had traveled to Sanriku in December 1997. After publishing the volume 'Distance' the previous year, I had fallen into a crisis, so I used a zoom lens from 28 mm to 200 mm. After I returned to Tokyo, I sold the lens and never printed any of the photos. The city was almost completely destroyed by the tsunami last year. I hope these photos can be useful in some way." (freely translated, © Koji ONAKA, 2012)
Background information
"The small photo book 'Unimachi 1997' was created in 2012 under the impression of the devastating tsunami in Japan. A small drawing at the beginning of the book situates the B&W images of everyday life in the cities at that time contained in the volume in the region marked by the devastation. The series was published again in a book of photographs at a later date.
Content
Long out of print, Koji ONAKA's photography volume 'Umimachi' contains full-page B&W shots of everyday urban life. At the end of the volume, Koji ONAKA's statement on the motives of the publication is reproduced in English and in Japanese.
About the Japanese photographer, Koji ONAKA (b. 1960)
Photo books by Koji ONAKA
- Format
- 1st print run, pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 15 x 19 x 1 cm., 96 pp., approx. 50 b/w ills., bilingual text (few words): Japanese / English, Ltd. to 250 copies