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ODO YAKUZA TOKYO

Title: ODO YAKUZA TOKYO

Photographer/s: Anton Kusters

Contributor/s: Malik Kusters
Ginryu

Date of publication: june 17, 2011

Place of publication: www.burnmagazine.org

Dimensions: 8.9″ x 11″

Edition size: 500

Type of binding: Soft cover, Otabind layflat hotmelt binding

Number of pages: 224

Type of paper: Pages: Symbol Tatami Ivory 1.3, 135g/m2 – Cover: Invercote G, 300g/m2

Number of pictures: 92 + 12 works of calligraphy by Ginryu

Type of printing: quadri full color

Printer: Perka nv, Belgium

Publisher: ZABROZAS*

Designer: Anton Kusters

Editor: Anton Kusters

Language: English

ISBN: 9789412700005

Category: artist photo book

Price: 50€

Summary: ODO YAKUZA TOKYO is an intimate personal account of a Belgian photographer documenting the inaccessible subculture of Japanese organized crime: the Yakuza. Anton Kusters teams up with his brother Malik and documents the inside of the Shinseikai family, who control Kabukicho, the infamous red light district, in the heart of Tokyo. From funerals to covert training camps, business meetings to full on tattoo displays, the modern day enigma that is “Yakuza” in Japan is shown. The feeling of subtlety and massive underlying tension is present throughout the images, constantly reminding us that this world we live in is not black versus white, not good versus evil…
It is simply mankind in its many, many, many shades of grey.

Date and place of birth of photographer/s: june 17, 1974, Hasselt, Belgium

Website: http://www.antonkusters.com

Book link: http://www.antonkusters.com

Donated by: anton kusters

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Published on September 13, 2011 12:55 pm.
Filed under: Books Tags: Anton Kusters, Ginryu, ZABROZAS*

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