Koji Onaka - Tin Roof & Chimney

Koji Onaka
Tin Roof & Chimney

Published by Gallery Negative, 2025
Size: 20 x 23 cm
120 pages
Languages: English, Japanese
First edition limited to 500 copies.
Available from November 19th for the meet/signing with the artist at the bookstore!

Taken between 2021 and 2024 across Japan, from Hokkaido in the north to Kagoshima in the south, Koji Onaka once again bathes the scenes unfolding before him in a strange and nostalgic glow. In "Tin Roof & Chimney," he focuses on buildings, nooks and crannies, and rural landscapes—places marked by decay and patina. His photographs possess a transformative power, appearing as much as projections of the past as the fond memories of a time traveler.

Time has passed, and now the family restaurants and Japanese inns have vanished from the train stations of rural Japan. The shopping streets have closed their shutters, and the children have disappeared from the parks. Yet, as I stepped off the train and walked toward the distant chimneys, fragments of memories, secretly present in the city, compelled me to press the shutter.
— Excerpt from the afterword by Koji Onaka