Takuya Tanabe is a photographer from Japan. The Aftermath of Policy, by Japanese photographer Takuya Tanabe of The Asahi Shimbun, won 1st Place in Analog / Film Photojournalism at the 2026 International Photography Awards and was a Jury Top 5 Selection. It was shot on medium-format film with a Pentax 67.
The series documents the life of Shinji Nakao, who has spent decades in a national sanatorium for Hansen’s disease. Separated from his family at 14, he was placed in the institution, where his ties were severed and he was forced to undergo sterilisation. Unable to return to society, he has lived there ever since, and now lives alone at 92.
Read in Luminaries: A Life Shaped by Policy
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