This photobook offers a meticulously detailed record of contemporary urban young men, their rooms, and the objects within them, captured by photographer Kei Ono—an artist renowned for his portraits of youth. It features portraits of ninety young men alongside their intensely private living spaces, accompanied by newly written texts based on conversations with the subjects.
These rooms overflow with stories that cannot be contained within their walls; unwritten narratives cry out from the cluttered floors—scenes that feel more like fiction than real life. Multiple layers of time, etched into the rooms, seem to be compressed right into the frame; I want to declare with confidence that what is captured in this book is, in fact, "story" itself.
