Yoshihiro Suzuki: Eastbeats. Osaka 1964 – 1970 - A young man who had just
leaving the countryside to settle in the metropolis of Osaka, Suzuki Yoshihiro
began his new life as a worker by buying himself a reflex camera
Minolta SRI. In his free time he walked around the city,
spontaneously and curiously photographing the urban landscape, in settings
ranging from boulevards to shopping malls and from the business district to
traditional alleys. Suzuki defines himself as an "amateur photographer" and his
story is representative of the powerful amateur photography movement in
post-war Japan, which is largely unknown to the public,
unlike the work of professional photographers who have been exhibited
worldwide. Suzuki's first photographs were revealed by
pure coincidence: his son's wife discovered the negatives and took them
developed in the form of contact sheets. More than fifty years after the
photographs of Suzuki were taken, they are finally published in the form
from a photo book. \n \nYoshihiro Suzuki, born in 1941 in Ashiya (Japan), has
started taking photographs around 1964. He lives in Osaka. Yumi Son, born in 1971 in
Himeji (Japan), discovered the photographic archives in his father's house
father-in-law in Osaka. She lives in Berlin.
