By Haruhiko Sameshima
Rim Books, NZ$60 | Reviewed by Hanna Scott

LIKE AN Oscar-winning speech the first thing that hit me when I opened the pages of this almost-square format book is the list of acknowledgements on page eight. A whole page of them, stacked into categories. The most heart warming, and also the longest, is the list of “photographers that I have never met but whose work had a direct influence on me when making photographs for this book,” as if Sameshima were making a disclaimer against an accusation of inappropriate appropriation.