SAKAE MENDA has been shortlisted at Star Photobook Dummy Award. Caption: Tamae and Menda on their wedding day, over 1985. From my project Sakae Menda. I had the opportunity to spend time with someone who had missed his whole life on the Japanese Death Row. Sakae Menda had been tortured until he was forced to admit a double murder in 1949. Despite the evident mental scars left by his imprisonment, mr. Menda spends most days working in his orchard, just as he once gave cuttings from his prison garden to fellow inmates. #sakaemenda #japan #death #deathrow #tokyo #photobook #photographer #albertbonsfills #12599 #sakaemendabook #love #flowers #flowersofinstagram #capitalpunishment #starphotobookdummyaward @photographicsv