A person is only complete when he or she is together with someone else, says the Japanese Photographer Hal (1971). ‘That’s why I pack them together’. He means that literally. For his series Zatsuran he asked couples to step inside a big plastic bag. With a vacuum cleaner he sucked the air out.
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