Citizens

Black and white images from noiresque streets of Japan.

"Abe’s photographs are dense- they stop you with their marvelous framing and baffling juxtapositions. It’s not just that these things were actually there before Abe, but that they exist in any photograph at all. But photographs are all that they do exist as, since there is no way that reality could look this interesting without four edges. The boundaries of each frame encapsulate a very intelligent and sometimes bemused way of seeing." John Sypal

 

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