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About the photographer, Munemasa TAKAHASHI (b. 1980, Tokyo):
Munemasa TAKAHASHI is a Tokyo-based photographer. He graduated from Nippon Photography Institute, Tokyo in 2001. In 2002 he received the Superior prize in the 11th Canon New Cosmos of Photography. After 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, he became a member of Salvage Memory project, a volunteer effort to recover nearly 750,000 family photos that had been lost in the town of Yamamoto in Miyagi prefecture, one of the towns worst hit by tsunami. The project returned more than 41,000 photos to their owners and it’s still continuing presently. While many of the photos were returned, there were too heavily damaged photos to be returned and thrown into a 'Hopeless' box. He took these 'Hopeless' photos and turned them into a traveling exhibition 'Lost & Found Project' that aimed to raise funds for tsunami survivors.