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Illuminating The Quiet: Eiji Ohashi’s Vending Machine Photography in Japan
Imaging Recource BrandsWhen I first looked through Japanese photographer Eiji Ohashi’s body of work on vending machines, titled “Roadside Lights,” which is a series of night landscapes he’s been working on since 2008 and which he mostly shot in the middle of various snowstorms during that time span, I thought they were simply charming. I even liked the personal anecdote that reveals why he felt he wanted to photograph them. “My encounter with vending machines began when I lived in Wakkanai, the northernmost city in Japan. Winters in the north are harsh, with blizzards so strong that the snow seems to fall...
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