Hajime Sawatari is 76 and alone. He's technically still married, but found that photography and chasing skirt didn't sit well with being in a monogamous relationship.
"I want to be free to photograph what I want. I'm very self-centered," he tells me, disarmingly.
In the early 1970s Sawatari created the photo book "Alice," which featured full-frontal nude shots of a pre-pubescent girl. "That couldn't be done now, things are much more strict," he says, expressing no regret for his very gendered scopophilia, but for aging in a society that, in his view, has become more prudish.
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