Recruit (Handmade book ltd edt 147 copies signed)

Hiroshi Okamoto
Recruit (Handmade book ltd edt 147 copies signed)

Photographs: Hiroshi Okamoto

Text: Hiroshi Okamoto

Publisher: In collaboration with Reminders Photography Stronghold 2015

98 pages

Year: 2016

Comments: Soft cover,elastic binding, with the photography I.D attached by a paper clip.27.3cm×19.6cm×0.9cm. all archival pigment digital print. Editorial coordination and Art direction : Yumi Goto, Jan Rosseel. A beautiful design. In very good condition other than stains close to the spine left by a rubber band. The rubber band is broken and a part is glued to the middle pages, it left marks on the before and after page.

“I want to die”.
During February 2013, this e-mail was sent by my best friend in my university, who was doing his job-hunting then.

In Japan, more than half a million students participate in job-hunting simultaneously every year.
Students go into this frantic game with their desire and anxiety for their future careers.

“Recruit” is a personal story of Yo Toshino, my best friend from my university, and his job-hunting experience.
This is also just one of the stories amongst more than half a million job-hunters in Japan.