Shoko Hashimoto, born in 1939, belongs to the generation that transformed Japanese photography during the 1960s and 70s. Closely associated with the radical photographic milieu around Shinjuku, he photographed streets, bars, performers and everyday encounters with an immediate, rough-edged approach. Darwin selects Hashimoto for this proximity to Tokyo’s postwar underground: photography made from participation, where nightlife, counterculture and ordinary life enter the same restless visual record.
