A portrait for myself | Kei Ono | Seigensha 2024

A portrait for myself | Kei Ono | Seigensha 2024Imperfect A has a very small dent on the lower spine. Imperfect B a have larger dent on the upper left side of the back cover. "The concluding volume to the authors twenty year long series of portraits of high school students from throughout Japan. Photographer Kei Ono began shooting portraits of high school students from around Japan in 2002. This collectionthe third in the series after The Glare of Youth (2006) and New Text (2013)represents the

There are some scratches and small dents on the dustjacket

and it seems as though it still drifts along with the continuously fluid situation

I used strobes to photograph the parakeets in the evenings

" - from author's statement

But he was brought out of his crisis and moved to return to photography thanks

Seiji Kumagai

encouraging us to have a more direct relationship to photography

and even the black areas aren’t completely black

The dust jacket has scratches

history as a"living creature"

among the others

There are stains on the edges of the pages (see phtoto)