Shima no Ama | Kusukazu Uraguchi | Atelier EXB 2024 Yoshiyuki Okuyama softcover with dustjacket

softcover with dustjacket

and it took time for this stranger to be tolerated

his vision becomes blurry

The slipcase has some scratches ans some clear stains

Shima no Ama | Kusukazu Uraguchi | Atelier EXB 2024 Yoshiyuki Okuyama softcover with dustjacket"For centuries, ama women divers have fed the Japanese imagination. These free divers collect abalone, shellfish and seaweed, the sale of which ensures their financial independence within the household. Kusukazu Uraguchi (1922 1988) has been photographing them in the Shima region, along the Pacific coast of Japan, for over thirty years since the mid 1950s. The fruit of extensive research among nearly 40,000 negatives almost all of them previously