Mēdeia2.0 ISSUE N˚06 Shomei Tomatsu

Shomei Tomatsu, one of the monumental figures in post-war Japanese photography, famously obsessed over capturing plastic waste washed ashore on Kujukuri Beach. His series, Plastics, vividly portrays the trajectory of modern consumption, waste, and the future of civilization. Medeia 2.0 ISSUE06 presents a re-edited perspective of this iconic series.

Once symbols of convenience that colored everyday life, these plastics eventually became inorganic waste drifting upon the shore. Tomatsu looked at them not merely as scrap, but as relics of an era—fragments of civilization itself. Through the lens of the "Medeia" project, which seeks to communicate social issues across the boundaries of fashion and art, Tomatsu's visual inquiry strikes us with renewed resonance. This volume acts as a quiet yet powerful interrogation of the essence of modern consumption.