Wanting a change of scenery, I left the city center where I had been taking photographs for so many years and headed to the western outskirts of Tokyo. Herc I found shuttered shops and business on their last legs- and old, vacant houses. Across the street, uniformly-built, new housing tracts sit deserted, looking like a graveyard. Such is the beautiful wilderness left behind by Japan’s “Lost Decades”. A dead-end view of Tokyo.

– Shinya Arimoto

“ariphoto selection vol.11” and “ariphoto selection vol.12” are released simultaneously.
Vol.11 gathers landscape photographs from the Tama area of Tokyo, while Vol.12 features portraits photographed in the same region.
Together, the two volumes offer different perspectives on the quiet atmosphere and everyday presence of Tama.

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