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), this series focuses on the friendship and individual personalities of three "non-professional" models. Sophie (21):

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These works moved Ishikawa away from his early photojournalism roots into a unique blend of "realism and fantasy". Chemistry:

Nancy was the strangest. It was a photobook of nothing but doors. Closed doors. Ajar doors. Doors with peeling paint, doors with brass numbers, a door in a hospital corridor, a door half-hidden by ivy. The final image was a door left open to a staircase going down into darkness. The title page read simply: “For Nancy, who knew how to leave.”