Travel Diary of Japan - Ray Kinnane
18. Osaka III

Honshu

Set of 3 images, glass and metal framed 405mm x 510mm. Image area is 250mm wide x 275mm deep.

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a. Homeless man.

b. Eating Noodles, Shinsaibashi Suji.

c. 'Purikula' queuing for photo.

Young women in Osaka carry thick photo albums filled with photographs of themselves with a friend/friends taken at instant photo booths. They are part of what they call 'purikula', Japanese for print club. Some have thousands of these pictures as a record of who they know.