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Katsu Naito - Once in Harlem *Signed*

£310.00

Publisher: TBW Books
Year: 2017
Format: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition, 1,000 copies
Condition: New
Pages: 100
Size: 9.25 x 11.5in

In 1983, at only 18 years of age, Katsu Naito arrived in New York from his native Japan to work as a contracted kitchen chef. By 1988 he had settled in Manhattan's Harlem neighborhood, an area only just recovering from the brutal economic devastation of the 1970s, and on the cusp of the drastic dislocation brought upon longtime residents of this historically black community in the 1990s.

An outsider in all but residence, Naito traced the streets of his neighborhood on foot, camera in hand, for two years before shooting his first frame. Slowly, Naito became familiar with the people and community he was living amongst, and they with him. Gradually, the necessary trust was built to record, with quiet tenderness, a time and place that would soon undergo an abrupt transformation. Organically, Naito was welcomed in as a member of his Harlem neighborhood.