Zen Foto Gallery is pleased to present Haruto Hoshi’s photography exhibition, “Shinjuku 1999–2008”, from June 27 (Friday) to August 9 (Saturday), 2025. This will be Hoshi’s first solo exhibition at Zen Foto Gallery. The exhibition will feature selected works from his photobook of the same title, published last autumn.
Hoshi, who started taking photographs in the late 1990s, felt comfortable with the depth of the city’s nostalgia and the warmth and kindness of its people as he walked around Shinjuku with his camera around the year 2000, and found himself at home there. But the city has changed over time. Now that he is far away, he has looked again at the black-and-white photos he took of Shinjuku in the past and has put these back together to make a record of Shinjuku “back then”, including previously unpublished works. During the exhibition, there will be a talk between Hoshi and photographer Yang Seung-Woo.
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