Translated from the Japanese by Ivan Vartanian


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Yuji Hamada is the recipient of the 2013 Magenta Foundation Flash Forward Emerging Photographer award. He is based in Tokyo.
More about the author →Ivan Vartanian is an author, curator, collaborator and publisher of photobook editions. He lives in Tokyo.
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