Koji Onaka

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I set up my first darkroom when I was 16 years old in my room at home and then I started to do film development and printing by myself.

In 1982, When I was 22 years old, after graduating from Tokyo Photography College,I participated in an independent gallery called "CAMP" that was founded by Daido Moriyama, I had my first exhibition at "CAMP" in 1983.

At that time,I took photos of my hometown for the exhibition because I had been away since I was 10 years old.

I had the feeling that I wanted to find my lost childhood memories there.

When I was 28 years old, I opened up a small space for my work that I named "Gallery Kaido" and I did a series of exhibitions titled "Seitaka-awadachiso" that were held 32 times over a period of 4 years.

When this exhibition series came to end, I made my first photo book.

Since then, I have travelled to a lot of rural Japanese towns and foreign countries. But even now, I think that I am still looking for traces of my own memories in every place I visit.

I haven't really changed that much, I'm still making all my own prints in my darkroom even now.

Koji Onaka

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