Mēdeia2.0 ISSUE N˚06 Shohei Takenaka Is this a photograph or

Is this a photograph or a painting

feature lead actress Ichikawa Mikako

bringing them home

He photographed these ancient earthenware shards exactly as they were kept—resting on the decades-old newspapers originally used as lining and cushioning inside their storage boxes

Mēdeia2.0 ISSUE N˚06 Shohei Takenaka Is this a photograph orShomei Tomatsu, one of the monumental figures in post war Japanese photography, famously obsessed over capturing plastic waste washed ashore on Kujukuri Beach. His series, Plastics, vividly portrays the trajectory of modern consumption, waste, and the future of civilization. Medeia 2. 0 ISSUE06 presents a re edited perspective of this iconic series. Once symbols of convenience that colored everyday life, these plastics eventually became inorganic