Yoshiyuki Okuyama The Town Where You Live

"The Town Where You Live" is a photo book compiled by Okuyama Yoshiyuki based on the series of the same name that was serialized in the magazine "EYESCREAM" (March 2014 issue to November 2016 issue).
Set in the city of Tokyo, the work is made up of a series of works photographed with a Polaroid camera of 35 women and cityscapes.

Vacant lots with piled-up guardrails, narrow abandoned roads, pavements with temporary lettering - everywhere in the ever-growing city of Tokyo, "distortions" where the past and present overlap appear. With such scenery as a backdrop, Okuyama photographs her subjects as she walks through the city, quietly capturing the relationship between "the city of Tokyo and Tokyo girls."

The key word in this work is "space."

The fluctuations of emotions, the gaps in time, the spaces between places. By capturing not a complete "point" but the fluid "lines" before and after it, the rawness and presence of human presence emerges.
The overlapping sensation of the staged and the everyday, the past and the present, the new and the nostalgic is further solidified by the square screen of the Polaroid medium.

In addition to portraits, the book also includes landscape photos of Tokyo taken while walking between towns. The resulting portrait is a portrait of not only the subject, but also the city in which the person might live.

This book features 35 women who symbolized Tokyo at the time.
Although it is a photo book, it can also be read as a record that captures the atmosphere of an era.

List of performers (in order of appearance)
Nana Komatsu / Fumi Nikaido / Sayu Kubota / Kasumi Arimura / Riko Narumi / Aining Yao / Mugi Kadowaki / Reina Kurosaki / Suzu Hirose / Airi Matsui / Maika Yamamoto / Nana Kiyono / Yuko Araki / Kaho / Fumino Kimura / Tsubasa Honda / Marie Iitoyo / Kaho Mizutani / Hana Sugisaki / Yurika Nakamura / Yuna Taira / Akari Hayami / Natsumi Okamoto / Ai Hashimoto / Mikako Tabe / Riho Yoshioka / Mitsuki Takahata / Aoi Morikawa / Ayami Nakajo / Shiori Kutsuna / Fuka Koshiba / Haruna Kawaguchi / Momoko Tanabe / Ren Komai / Yui Sakuma

[Title] The Town Where You Live
[Publisher] Space Shower Network (SPACE SHOWER BOOKS)
[Publication date] May 22, 2017 (Original 2nd printing)
[Number of pages] 256 pages
[Size] Approx. 150*149*21mm, 0.29kg
[Format] Softcover
[Title Reading] Kiminosummachi
[Authors/Editors] Yoshiyuki Okuyama/Author, Kazunari Hattori/Design
[Printing] Dai Nippon Printing
[ISBN] 978-4-907435-4
[Condition] Used [ 6 ] Above average (minor scratches on obi)
[Accessories] Obi, box
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Yoshiyuki Okuyama (1991-)

Born in Tokyo in 1991. Photographer and film director.
In 2011, while still a student at Keio University, she won the 34th New Cosmos of Photography Excellence Award for her photo book "Girl," attracting attention.
In 2016, he won the 47th Kodansha Publishing Culture Award Photography Award for his photo book "BACON ICE CREAM."
He has received high praise for his unique style of expression that captures the "in-between" of time and emotion through portraits and cityscapes.
His major photo books include "flowers," "As the Call, So the Echo," "POCARI SWEAT," "BACON ICE CREAM," "The Town Where You Live," "Los Angeles / San Francisco," and "The Good Side."
He has held solo exhibitions at Omotesando Hills Space O, Canon Gallery S, PARCO MUSEUM TOKYO, and other venues.
In recent years, in addition to photography, he has also been active as a film director, working on the films "5 Centimeters per Second" and "At the Bench."

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