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The primary material of photographer Narumi Hiramoto consists of daily clippings from the local newspaper Chiba Nippo, to which he subscribes.

The act of duplicating and modulating news photographs deliberately obscures their original context and renders their subjects nameless. Hiramoto’s mystery-imbued series, which invites viewers to cross the threshold between the real and imagined, or the objective and subjective, was awarded the Grand Prix at the 20th 1_Wall competition for photography and met with high acclaim in Japan.

Each collage is completed in the privacy of Hiramoto’s …