Katsuhito Nakazato

[4] The classes were held once a week for two months, and Nakazato took seriously Kitai's casual answer that yes, he might be able to make it as a photographer.

[2] Throughout this time Nakazato was supporting himself via as series of jobs that he disliked, and at 28 he determined that although the prospects of a good income looked bleak, he would indeed be a professional photographer as there was nothing other than photography that he wanted to do.

[4] Nakazato's first photobook, published in 1991, is a portrayal of life on the "man-made wilderness" on the edges of Tokyo Bay, during its rapid changes before the construction of Makuhari Messe.

The portraits (as well as the use of monochrome) make this book unusual among Nakazato's works, but it is highly regarded.

With the help of an architecture student from Waseda University, he was successful in what turned out to be the first of a series of sheds.