OTHER THING
A Portrait of Kii: How to Walk Japan (Book Three, SP 3)
Craig ModAbout the book
A 128 page photobook of the people of the Kii Peninsula
Photographer and essayist Craig Mod returned to the Kii Peninsula in February 2025 to photograph the people of the Peninsula. Craig sees this as a companion book of photographs to the Random House edition of Things Become Other Things.
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Craig Mod is a writer and photographer based in Japan. He's the author of the books Things Become Other Things and Kissa by Kissa and is a MacDowell, Ragdale, and VCCA writing fellow. His essays and articles have appeared in The New York Times, Eater, The Atlantic, California Sunday Magazine, Wired, Aeon, New Scientist, Virginia Quarterly Review, The New Yorker, The Morning News, Codex: Journal of Typography, and elsewhere.
He writes newsletters, oh yes, newsletters: Roden & Ridgeline.
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