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Japanese photographer Osamu Kanemura presents a manifestation of his photographic practice with his publication "Gate Hack Eden," which is being published to coincide with an exhibition of the same name at Cave-Ayumi Gallery in Tokyo in September 2024. Consisting of four different modules, each containing 400 images, "Gate Hack Eden" takes the form of a "landscape of towering ruins, marked by the traces of what once was, revealing the essence of what still is and what always will be.” In fragments of photographs, drawings, film stills, and collages, Kanemura explores the city as both place and concept, exploring the nature of materiality and its relationship to photography.
The images contained in each module have been sorted and arranged by hand, making each individual copy of "Gate Hack Eden" unique. Each publication also includes a fifth, smaller module with in-depth essays written by Osamu Kanemura and Pauline Vermare (curator of photography at the Brooklyn Museum, New York). All texts are in English and Japanese.

“Kanemura’s work is all about reclaiming materiality: his photographs, books, zines and installations constitute a pro-physicality manifesto, encouraging us to have a more direct relationship to photography, and to the world.”
― from Pauline Vermare’s essay