Cherry BlossomBruce Gilden first set foot in Japan in 1995. On this trip, the first of several, he explored a hidden side of a country that had long fascinated him; from Tokyo to Osaka, he uncovered a Japan that is little known to Westerners and captured it in his own inimitable photographic style. In Bruce Gilden: Cherry Blossom, Gilden tells the story of these travels and the ties he maintains with Japan in a rare introductory text. Every photograph portrays a

and beaches

The photographs have a slowness and a stillness to them

and linguistically

000 photographs: a body of vernacular work capturing over half a century of life in vivid colour

the first being a solitary one

Bates’ photographs are full of things disappearing in plain sight

populated by outlaws and intellectuals

His most recent work

and an understanding of the ways in which play and pleasure can come together to create something radical

The disparate photographs assembled here were made over the course of twenty years

including Steve Martin

In some photographs