My Ektachrome – Koji Onaka 2022

My Ektachrome – Koji Onaka 2022

僕のエクタクローム

尾仲浩二

Koji Onaka © 2022

Publisher KAIDO BOOKS June 2022

Editing and design by Koji Onaka

1st edition of 500 Hard cover

Printed in Innuniq, Inc. Tokyo Japan

Special thanks to Luigi Clavareau in)(between gallery Paris France

Back in 1996 in my mid-thirties after publishing DISTANCE, a high-contrast B&W photo book, there was a stretch when I was shooting with both B&W negative and positive color films.

After a while I encountered negative color films and naturally, I said goodbye to B&W and positive films. Recently I found a lot of positive films from those days that I had forgotten about and I cut out the frames that I thought were good and set them aside as my first check, and now that I couldn’t find those shots preliminary checked as the important ones, I thought that maybe it was destined to happen. So, moving forward I copied the remaining photos with a digital camera. It is this body of works that I call “My Ektachrome” that I produced by adjusting the faded colors to my favorite color profile in Photoshop just like my handmade darkroom color prints.

Shooting Locations (1996-1999) Hokkaido, Miyagi Tochigi, Gunma, Chiba, Kanagawa, Hyogo, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi, Ehime, Fukuoka, Saga, Nagasaki.