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One of the sites documented is the old National Stadium, chronicling its transformation into the new National Stadium, and another is the Tsukiji Market just before its relocation to Toyosu Market.\u003cbr\u003eHomma's photography possesses a uniquely cool gaze that rejects any sentimentality and portrays its subjects with a characteristic sense of distance and cool tonality; he has received acclaim not only in the world of photography but also contemporary art. 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I love Tokyo very much.\" Homma's (born 1963) affection is nearly tangible in this series of 32 color photographs in which images of his daughter are placed beside detail shots of the city's cars, houses and trees. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHomma's daughter, captured in various stages of toddlerhood in everyday locations, stares serenely just beyond the camera lens, unselfconscious and generally appearing more interested in the person holding the camera than the device itself: in one photograph, she peers out curiously from the backseat of a car, while in another she points her own tiny pink camera back at her father. Homma's photography is imbued with a warmth and sincerity that belies his total familiarity with the subjects at hand; he documents Tokyo's urban landscape with the same tenderness he brings to portraying his daughter. 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Shot across a variety of familiar, recognizable locations, mainly in urban environments, Homma's portraits have an illuminating quality that reveal a psychological depth in their subjects. His portraits are guided by empathy and a desire to observe people as they are--free from manipulation or staging. The result is a more inclusive, nuanced visual representation of Japanese identity--expanding the lens through which Japanese people are seen both within Japan and internationally. While Japan has long fascinated audiences in the U.S., Europe, and beyond--often admired for its aesthetics, traditions, and technological innovation--the lived realities of its people are often idealized, misunderstood, or overlooked. 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In one image, the cat lays serenely amidst pot plants on the balcony, squinting in morning sunlight; in others, it balances precariously on the edge of the bath, snuggles beneath a sleeping bag, plays in a cardboard box, hides beneath an open umbrella. Here and there, evidence of the cat’s fellow inhabitant in the apartment – a man, who also happens to be the internationally renowned photographer Takashi Homma – creeps into the frame. A knee, a foot, a shock of blonde hair, half of a face. There are artefacts of his life and practice too. Framed photographic prints draped in bubblewrap lean against a wall; a tangle of musical effects pedals make for colourful constellation against the cool blue of the carpet.\n\nMany have written of the unique atmosphere and energy of Takashi Homma’s pictures. His photographic mannerisms are so light, so subtly empathetic to his subjects, that we all but dissolve into the world he creates. 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