”I’ve Never Seen Such a Sad Spring”: Yuna Hosino's Photos From Tokyo, Japan
"The shop in the bustling city of Shinjuku had refrained from doing business and it was a quiet and strange scene,” photographer Yuna Hosino writes us in an email. I first discovered Hosino’s photography in an art bookstore in Brooklyn and was captivated by her ability to turn the ordinary to magic—her photos look like scenes from a sad, beautiful film or a dystopian role-playing video game. We established a correspondence and she began to send us photographs, 10 of which she has allowed to be published in Countere.
The title of this photo essay comes from her description of Tokyo this year: “I’ve never seen such a sad spring.” These photos document the isolation, quiet, and eternal wonder of the sprawl of Tokyo, Japan during the 2020 coronavirus pandemic.
