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Takashi Homma made his name photographing street style in 1990s Tokyo, during Japan’s so-called Lost Decade. Since then, he’s continued to chronicle the vagaries of fashion and youth culture while also turning his distinct yet discreet eye toward suburban life, ocean waves, and radioactive mushrooms, becoming a pillar of contemporary Japanese photography. Now sixty-three, he has amassed an oeuvre of more than sixty publications, including zines, essays, exhibition catalogs, and, of course, photobooks, most recently Portrait of J (Dashwood Books/Session Press, 2025), a love letter to the ordinary people of Japan. Marigold Warner sat down with Homma at his office in Tokyo to talk about his evolving relationship with the medium, and the city itself.     by Marigold Warner