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Takashi Homma – Portrait of JPortrait of J is a compelling new photobook from renowned Japanese photographer Takashi Homma, featuring 111 portraits of the Japanese people, taken between 2002 and the present. Portrait of J joins the rich tradition of socially engaged portraiture, echoing seminal works such as August Sanders Face of Our Time, Irving Penns Small Trades, and, Wolfgang Tillmanss Portraits. What distinguishes Portrait of J is its intentional focus on ordinary

texture and form

mostly taken with a smartphone or saved as screenshots

His early works primarily featured spaces and still life

they belong to everyone

and Katie Vida

A portfolio of Michael Schmidt’s acutely observed work from the 1970s and ’80s reveals the realms within realms of a once divided Berlin

instant nostalgia

Jim Drobnick

Alvy Ray Smith

the subject evolves

Bert Flint

Interwoven with these human forms are Wei’s meditations on botanical subjects