KUSUKAZU URAGUCHI - SHIMA NO AMA

For centuries, ama (women divers) have fuelled the Japanese imagination. These women divers collect abalone, shellfish and seaweed, the sale of which ensures them economic independence within the household. Kusukazu Uraguchi (1922-1988) has been photographing them in the Shima region along Japan's Pacific coast for more than thirty years, since the mid-1950s. The result of extensive research among nearly 40,000 negatives (almost all of them unpublished), this remarkable archive of landscapes, portraits and underwater views tells the s...[Read more]