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摘要

For most, it will only be some great event that compels us to reappraise the course of our lives. For Japanese photographer Taku-ji Shimmura it was the death of a loved one. Originally a hairdresser with his own salon, he decided, after the event, to make a tangential change to his career, sell up and use the money to fund a university degree in Japanese literature. Not content with that, on graduation, Shimmura then took up a course in photography more than half a world away in Paris, to pursue his new dream. Structural changes indeed.