They called me Yukari (SIGNED)

Hideka Tonomura
They called me Yukari (SIGNED)

Photographs: Hideka Tonomura

Publisher: ZEN FOTO

128 pages

Pictures: 64

Year: 2013

Price: 80 €

Comments: Softcover, 25,7 x 18,1 cm, color and b&w photographs. Limited edition of 500 copies. First edition. Out of print. In very good condition other than a small scotch to the corners of the cover. Signed by Hideka Tonomura.

In 2013, Japanese photographer Hideka Tonomura published “They Called Me Yukari” with Zen Foto Gallery, documenting the life and people around her when she worked as a hostess in Kabukicho, Shinjuku.

Kabukicho, Shinjuku

Patches of blood, bare genitalia

A sliver of darkness that’s not meant to be seen.

They called me Yukari.

“How we make a living? Sell our hearts, piece by piece by piece.”

- Hideka Tonomura

Hideka Tonomura's photographs show her obstinacy towards her family and are acclaimed for their uniqueness which are very physiologic and at the same time, somewhat comedic.