Photographer Hiroji Kubota believes that "everyone has a great drama to tell." With the release of his retrospective photo book, simply titled "Hiroji Kubota Photographer," now it's his turn to tell his.
As the sole Japanese member of Magnum Photos, the international collective founded in 1947 to give photographers greater editorial control over their work, his 55-year career has captured America's civil rights movement, the fall of Saigon and life in China after the Cultural Revolution alongside personal projects with global implications.
Seated at the Tokyo branch of Magnum Photos in Jinbocho, he admits that he's put off his retrospective for over a decade.