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Its photobooks often emerge directly from exhibitions, preserving photography as a space of circulation, encounter and rediscovery rather than cultural consensus.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"ten-disciples-tsutomu-yamagata-山縣勉-zen-foto-gallery-2015","title":"Ten Disciples — Tsutomu Yamagata 山縣勉 — Zen Foto Gallery — 2015","description":"\u003cp class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\"\u003eFacing his father’s cancer while becoming a father himself, Yamagata began visiting Tamagawa Onsen in Akita, a remote volcanic valley where cancer patients expose themselves to naturally radioactive rocks and geothermal heat. Bodies lying among stone and sulphurous steam reminded him of Buddhist images of Nirvana and its ten disciples. Made on grainy 35mm film, the photographs resist clinical documentation, turning illness, mortality and the possibility of renewal into an impressionistic landscape. 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After meeting Horikazu’s circle in 2011, de Goede returned to Japan repeatedly, eventually photographing inside the master’s studio and among his clients, including members of the yakuza. Across 154 black-and-white images, tattoo sessions, portraits, Sanja Matsuri and private gatherings reveal \u003cem\u003ewabori\u003c\/em\u003e not as spectacle but as a lived culture built around ritual, trust and belonging. 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