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Toyama was born in 1980 with a family background in the kimono dyeing industry. During his 20’s, he photographed 20 young artisans of various traditional crafts, using a medium sized film camera to capture a portrait of how each artisan imagined they would be in 10 years' time. He revisited them a decade later, this time using “ambrotype” (glass wet plate photography), a technique invented during the early days of photography in 1851, and a homemade camera to photograph the artisans as they imagined themselves 10 years into the future. Toyama explains that this photographic technique which predates industrialization, where light and time are fixed directly onto life-sized glass, “felt well-suited to capturing the spirit of artisans who make things by hand.” The result works with a unique quality and concept of time.