(SOLD): SHIMODATE, Hana. Girls Room Diary.

(Tokyo): Formare La Luce, 2023. First edition. Softcover. 15 × 21 cm. Unpaginated. Japanese and some English text. Photographer Hana Shimodate’s highly anticipated first book, here she visits the private bedrooms of twenty-one young women in Japan, documenting these intimate spaces as reflections of their personalities, interests and identities. Her colour photographs reveal rooms filled with plush toys, anime figures, clothes racks, pastel bedding and computer screens, where personal collections and everyday objects accumulate into richly individual worlds. Balancing a nostalgic, film-like quality with the visual overload of contemporary youth culture, the volume offers a fascinating glimpse into the private spaces of a generation whose lives move between the physical and digital worlds. A near fine copy in stapled wrappers.