Publisher/IANN

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"HIJACK GENI" is a collection of works by Japanese photographer Kenji Senga (1982–). Senga, who studied sociology at Osaka University, is an artist who explores the invisible structures lurking between the individual and society, and the distortions of modern society, through research-based photographic expression. In previous works such as "happn" and "The Suicide Boom," he has tackled contemporary themes such as digital society and suicide, developing a unique methodology that traverses photography, research, and fiction. This work is a project that deals with the special fraud that is rampant in Japan, so-called "ore-ore" fraud, and was created as a result of the artist's family being targeted by fraud. By layering the testimonies of victims and perpetrators, statistical data, landscape photographs, and 90 fictional portraits generated from the artist's own face, he brings to light the social structures that give rise to crime and the reality in which the boundaries between victim and perpetrator are blurred. Originally produced as a limited private edition by the artist himself in 2022, a mass-market edition was published by IANN Books in South Korea in 2024, attracting attention as an important attempt at a contemporary photobook that combines social research with photographic expression.