June Abe, Creatures

by Xavier Encinas

Published by Village Press in 1989, Jun Abe’s Creaturers marked the photographers first photobook of his career.


Exhibiting the work at Picture Photo Space in Osaka in 1989, Abe’s Creaturers contains 42 black and white images which capture animals photographed from zoos, aquariums, and arboretums

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