Fragment | Tokio Ito | Fugensha 2026

Fragment | Tokio Ito | Fugensha 2026"This work is a monochrome series of Fragments scenes he encountered on the streets during his ten year stay in New York from 1985 to 1995. Geometric patterns formed by construction cones and caution tape, tablecloths and glasses glimpsed through show windows, the manhole covers and the recurrence of dogs, the contrast of light and shadow on abandoned chairsand the occasional human figures are also recorded as objects appearing on the street. Set

lacked academic qualifications

The accumulated results are portraits for his young subjects that also serve as portraits of the times

Very small spots on the pages edges (see photo)

I was past the age of 30

and taken furtively and quickly as if when I saw the man or the fragment of food or waste paper I wanted to just pick it up and place it into the cameras as a note - on a frame of the film inside

First signed and numbered edition

creating a unique expression with a sense of 'wabi

Number 8 of the "Galphy series"

She has always been waiting for a moment that seems to transcend time

Even with the use of an infrared camera that responds to invisible rays

The setting is Spain under a dictatorship 30 years after the fierce civil war

the photographs simultaneously evoke a sense of nostalgia and newness