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Yoshiyuki Okuyama’s “Ton! Tan! Pan! Don!” is the fourth entry in a series of zine-like photobook publications by Tokyo-based label “bookshop M”, following Kikuji Kawada’s “20”, Zen Yoshikawa’s “Water” and Kota Sake’s “Zoo Animals.”

“Ton! Tan! Pan! Don!”, shot in a spur-of-the-moment decision during a photoshoot near the Tama River in Tokyo in 2020, consists of a series of 23 photographs showing a young couple fooling around in the warm light of the setting sun, being young, vibrating, radiating. In his afterword, Okuyama writes, “I took a good photo for the first time in a long time. I was just delighted…
Simplicity is good, you see. How pretty are the couple’s eyes, and the sunset reflected in them?”
― Yoshiyuki Okuyama