Hiroyasu Nakai - Gay in Shinjuku - 2008

Gay in Shinjuku

Hiroyasu Nakai
Graphica Editorial Office/2008/Japanese/183*243*8

1978 Gay in Shinjuku is a collection of photographs by Japanese photographer Hiroyasu Nakai, born in Hachinohe City, Aomori Prefecture in 1955, who studied photography at the Eikoh Hosoe School of the Workshop School of Photography from 1976 after dropping out of the Hachinohe Institute of Technology. After graduation, he participated in the activities of Gallery CAMP, to which Daido Moriyama and Keizo Kitajima belonged, holding solo and other exhibitions, etc. After returning home, he opened and ran Gallery Kita Point in Hachinohe City and also managed the photo gallery Place M. Throughout his life, Hiroyasu Nakai continued to face Hachinohe, and was active with his heart in the post-disaster Tohoku region, but died suddenly in February 2016 from a ruptured aortic aneurysm. This book consists of portraits of gay people taken in ‘Shinjuku 2-chome’ and ‘Kabukicho’ through the late 1970s. The unique photographs recall the work of Katsumi Watanabe and Seiji Kurata.