The Dear Film Project was launched with the aim of respecting the rich worldview of film and the spirit of photographers, re-editing them and passing them on to the next generation. We have created zines by seven photographers, each limited to 500 copies.
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Shuntaro Tanikawa is, needless to say, one of Japan's leading poets. He also takes photographs himself and has published many books in collaboration with photographers.
This time, DEAR FILM PROJECT wanted to turn into a zine was:
The question was, ``What did this rare poet see when he was young?''
How did a young poet view the world through his camera's viewfinder when Japan was still poor? I wanted to relive what kind of moments the poet felt were important in his daily life, not through the words of his poems, but through his photographic gaze.
That is why, after several decades, the photographs that Tanigawa himself selected from the huge pile of negatives taken with a twin-lens reflex camera that had been sleeping in Tanigawa's closet have finally seen the light of day.

■Shuntaro Tanikawa
Born in Tokyo in 1931.
In 1950, he attracted attention when he published ``Nero and Five Other Poems'' in the literary world, and in 1952 he published his first collection of poems, ``Two Billion Light Years of Solitude'', which received high praise for its fresh sensitivity. Since then, as of June 2021, he has published numerous poetry collections, essay collections, picture books, children's stories, and translated books, as well as scripts, lyrics, photo books, videos, and more. His poems are widely supported overseas as well. In addition to the Yomiuri Literary Award-winning poetry collection "Maps of the Days," the poetry collections "62 Sonnets," "Definition," "World Knowledge Raz," "Word Play Songs," "Yoshishi Song," "Mickey Mouse at Night," and "Tromso Collage" He has written many books, including ``Beige'' and translated ``Mother Goose.''

[Staff review]

staff:Akatsuka
Key points: This book contains photos that Shuntaro Tanikawa took with a twin-lens reflex camera when he was young. The photos capture the ordinary days of that time, and are pure photographs that seem to reflect Tanikawa's personality as they are.

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