Baggage

Seung-woo Yang
Baggage

Photographs: Seung-woo Yang

Publisher: Zen Foto Gallery

80 pages

Pictures: 81

Year: 2023

ISBN: 978-4-910244-29-7

Comments: Softcover, 25,5 x 18,2 cm. Text in English and Japanese.

For “Baggage,” Tokyo-based photographer Yang Seung-Woo approached homeless people in Japan’s capital and asked them to reveal their belongings. In the photobook, he introduces his subjects through portraits, carefully arranged photographs of the objects and items they carry, and a short profile text that includes their names, ages, places of birth, occupations and answers to the questions “What was your childhood dream?” and “What’s your dream now?”

“I always thought that the baggage they carry is filled with things that represent their lives.
But when I looked inside, it wasn’t the way I expected. It seems like the baggage itself is something very important.
It’s their travelling companion in life, and sometimes, their pillow.”
― Yang Seung-Woo