Happy Drink Shop / Kazutoshi Yoshimura

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"Happy Drink Shop" is a community-based vending machine developed in Yamanashi and Nagano Prefectures.
[Contents introduction]
This book is an unprecedented visual archive that records all of the 1044 stores that were visited by photographer Kazutoshi Yoshimura over a period of three and a half years.
Basically, it is composed in a grid format that lists vending machines that blend in with various scenery from a corner of downtown to a rotary in front of the station, along a national road, a road station, a farm road, and a mountain pass road. The impressive stores are introduced in one page.
It is a unique photo collection that highlights nostalgia, humor, and the beauty of local scenery.
After graduating from Prefectural Tagawa High School, he worked for a Tokyo-based printing company.
After leaving the company, he made his debut as a photographer with a year of Canadian life.
Based in Matsumoto City, Nagano, in 1967.
While traveling around the world and all over the country, he diligently covered the themes he decided for many years and published as a collection of works.
Landscape works that delicately capture light, shadow and wind, portrait photography that convey the breath and feelings of local people are popular. Many fans visit his private exhibitions held all over the country.
In recent years, he has expanded his range of expressions in writing, such as the publication of magazine series and essay collection.
Canadian Media Grand Prize in 2003, New Face Award of the Japanese Photography Association in 2007, Special Writer Award of the Higashikawa Award in 2015.