THE BACK PAGE REVISITED COMPILATION PHOTOBOOK ON SALE NOW!

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B4 SIZE、A COMPILATION OF 10 PHOTOGRAPHERS, ALL NEWLY PHOTOGRAPHED UNDER ONE THEME, 120 PAGES IN A SPECIAL BOX 3,500 YEN (PLUS SHIPPING AND HANDLING TO INTERNATIONAL ORDER) ORDER FROM HERE
We are pleased to invite you to the reception and publication launch of The Back Page Revisited!

The project is a compilation of images and text, created by tutors and participants of two photographic workshops held in 2013: the bdp (bookdummypress) Workshop and Handmade Photobook Workshop “A Handmade photobook is like a diamond in the rough”. Both workshops have one common theme “scenes of incidents reported in newspaper articles”. Participants researched events of their choice, and then visited the site and photographed their interpretation of it.

The exhibition will be held at the Reminders Photography Stronghold and the book will be available for purchase during the evening.

We invite guests to bring a cutout of a news story of their choice in a celebration of the printed story. We envisage that this project will continue into the new year and will develop to become broader in scope.

Exhibition date: Friday, 4th October to Monday, 4th November. 1 pm to 7pm
Reception evening: Friday, 4th October from 6pm to 9pm
*This is an open event.
Location: reminders photography stronghold gallery
2-38-5, Higashimukojima, Sumida-ku, Tokyo
https://reminders-project.org/rps/getting-here/

the back page revisited:
Familiar and usual place, ordinary scene without specific features, public area with many people gathering and passing by or very private secluded location – in those places they once deprived others of their lives, plotted to ambush someone, hidden evidence of their guilt, abandoned bodies. Some of them killed themselves and others because they couldn’t find reasons of their own existence or feared rejection by society. I was wondering whether traces reminiscing the past events still exist. Seeing the scenes of incidents that once shook the nation I question the human nature.

September, 2013
Yumi Goto

Participating photographers:

Sono Aida
Nozomi Iijima
Kenichi Kanno
Hajime Kimura
Soichiro Koriyama
Masaru Goto
Ryogo Shioda
Shuichiro Shibata
Miki Hasegawa
Megumi Yatagai

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©Sono Aida
**Locations and Incidents
Hamura convenience store robbery
Hamura runaway car accident
The Edogawa homeless’ tent arson attack
Adachi murder victim found in barrel full of concrete
Koto Court “spirited away” murder case
Hachioji fatal shooting

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©Nozomi Iijima
**Locations and Incidents
Okegawa stalking and murder case.

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©Kenichi Kanno
**Locations and Incidents
Train collision at Higashi-Nakano station
Fire at Myojo 56 building
Assault and killing of Sangen-Jaya Bank clerk
Fatal shooting of doctor at Aomonoyokocho station

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©Hajime Kimura
*Locations and Incidents
Series of attacks on children in Kobe

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©Soichiro Koriyama
*Locations and Incidents
Murder of girl from earpick salon
Meguro elderly couple Murder
Murder and mutilation of Shinjuku man by his wife.
Random attack in Ikebukuro.
Bus arson at Shinjuku West Gate
Suicide at JR Shinkoiwa station

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©Masaru Goto
**Locations and Names of authors who committed suicide
Takeo Arishima
Osamu Dazai
Yukio Mishima
Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Yasunari Kawabata

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©Ryogo Shioda
*Locations and Incidents
Serial bombing attacks on companies

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©Shuichiro Shibata
*Locations and Incidents
Nihon Univerisy two hundred million yen fraud.
Assassination of Prime Minister Takashi Hara.
Assassination of Prime Mnister Osachi Hamaguchi

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©Miki Hasegawa
*Locations and Incidents
Yokohama US military aircraft crash
Baby remains found in coin locker in Kita-Shinjuku
Discovery of a newborn’s body at Zama city baseball field

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©Megumi Yatagai
*Locations and Incidents
Vandalism of Taro Okamoto’s public art work
Edogawa homeless murder
The earthquate scars in Urayasu
Shibuya assault committed by “haunted” woman.
Shibuya bicycle accident
Singer Keiko Fuji dies looking to the skies
Girl rescued from the rail tracks at Nippon Odori station

Planning, Editing, Direction: Yumi Goto
Art Direction: Hajime Kimura
Editing: Miki Hasegawa
Technical Assistance: Sono Aida, Ryogo Shioda
Translation: Ikuko Ishida
English Proofreading: Thomas Shibata, Emma Phillips
Cooperation in Logo Design and Artwork: Yoshimi Kimura
Title Idea: Jake Price

Print & Bookibinding: Team of ‘’A Handmade photobook is like a diamond in the rough’’

B4 size, 120 pages 10 participating photographers’ editions in a special box 3,500 yen plus shipping and handling (Asia  approx. 1,200 yen, outside Asia approx 1,400 yen, Africa and South America approx 1,800 yen) ** Please ask for EMS/priority delivery service)
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