Alabama
‘We laughed and cried a lot’: a Japanese photographer in Alabama – in pictures
Pink House, 2018
‘Around the time this project began I was living in New York, working as a photographer. I often felt lonely, stressed out about everyday life and worried about the future. When my friend Tanya first took me to Walker County in 2017, I didn’t know anything about the southern US because I never had access. Many people, including those who live there, sometimes associate the south with poverty and rural blight, and while it is undeniable that those things exist, what I found in Walker County was beautiful, charming and full of love’