Shima no Ama | Kusukazu Uraguchi | Atelier EXB 2024 Yoshiyuki Okuyama The slipcase has some scratches

The slipcase has some scratches ans some clear stains

For better or for worse

we see Masami in various situations of everyday life: sitting across the table in a restaurant

his vision becomes blurry

softcover with dustjacket

Shima no Ama | Kusukazu Uraguchi | Atelier EXB 2024 Yoshiyuki Okuyama The slipcase has some scratches"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