Around lake town | Hiroshi Yamazaki | Zen foto gallery 2025 Ai Iwane whose postwar portraits offered intimate

whose postwar portraits offered intimate glimpses into daily life

with poet Takahiko Okada (1939-1997) and photographer Yutaka Takanashi as dojin members

tears and struggles of so many people are layered on top of each other like a stratum

may be the things I never got to photograph

each irreplaceable in their own way

Around lake town | Hiroshi Yamazaki | Zen foto gallery 2025 Ai Iwane whose postwar portraits offered intimateDuring a photographic discussion event about his photobook Funabashi Story, photographer Kazuo Kitai mentioned that he finds the clutter and messiness of Funabashi inspiring, and it motivates him to continue photographing the city. But there is no clutter in Lake Town. When I told an editor that Iw as taking photographs of Lake Townm he said it must be boring. The houses and apartments look exactly as they appear in real estate advertisements, and