Shima no Ama | Kusukazu Uraguchi | Atelier EXB 2024 Conditions:New while “Fake Scape

while “Fake Scape

Published in 1983

is accompanied by a copy of the original yellow leaflet

His trilogy

Shima no Ama | Kusukazu Uraguchi | Atelier EXB 2024 Conditions:New while “Fake Scape"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