Shozo Tomioka: Images from Noto Peninsula May 12, 2008

This exhibition features 25 images of by Shozo Tomioka, a Japanese photographer from Kanazawa, Japan.
Made in the 1950s, his black&white images were created in the fishing villages of Wajima and its surrounding area. Influenced by Ken Domon, a prominent Japanese photographer of the same generation, Tomioka's keen eye for composition with a sense of geometry captures the harsh, yet lively and joyful, lives of the local people.
His two books will be available for sale: one book on images from Noto Peninsula ($40) and the other on abstract study of the decay ($40). They are soft-bound and autographed by the photographer.

Official Website: http://www.projectbasho.org/gallery/