HAJIME SAWATARI 沢渡朔 - NAGISA HOTEL なぎさホテル

Nagisa Hotel  is a photobook by Japanese photographer Hajime Sawatari (沢渡朔), originally photographed between 1963 and 1964 and published in book form in 2015.

The series was shot at Nagisa Hotel in Zushi, Nagisa Hotel in Shinagawa, and Chigasaki Beach with Sawatari’s girlfriend at the time, identified by the initials Y.O.

 

“I took these photographs around 1963 and 1964 at Nagisa Hotel in Zushi, Nagisa Hotel in Shinagawa, and Chigasaki Beach. The subject was my girlfriend, her initials Y.O. Back then I worked at a design firm in Ginza, Tokyo, and I photographed them in seven or eight sessions we had on my days off. It was my hope to have them published in the monthly magazine Camera Mainichi, but Shoji Yamagishi, the editor, did not approve. It has been 50 years since then and my wish has finally been fulfilled.”

 

 

 

21.6x28cm   32 pages

stitched binding

 

Published by Super Labo in 2015 

edtion of 800