Nicolas Tei

Found

When I go to flea markets and antique markets, I look for old photographs. I don't know why any of them ended up for sale. These are the ones I've collected. I don't know who took them, who is in them, or when they were taken.

Past two blurred women in the foreground, a woman in kimono sits beneath a painting of Mount Fuji.
A shirtless young man in sunglasses lies on tatami.
Fruit piled in a shop window above a Cadbury's Dairy Milk sign.
Four women and two small children seated in a row.
A child in a striped shirt stands on an apartment walkway above a town.
A child with a backpack stands in a field before green hills.
A dentist in glasses treats a patient while a nurse looks on.
A woman in a striped top sits in a rocking chair beside a lace curtain.
A bus tilted on a steep stone embankment.
A woman in a sleeveless dress watches television, arms folded.
Two older women behind two laughing children.
A man in a cap crouches in tall grass, head bowed.
A small child in denim raises both arms, long shadows across the ground.
Children playing ball in a yard beside sheds and a bicycle.
A woman in a white dress sits in a chair, a cigarette in her hand.
Men in suits stand before a wooden building, one crouching.
A laughing toddler walks ahead of a woman in a dark skirt.
Two shirtless men arm wrestling.
A garden path between low shrubs, two figures in the distance.
Three women eat at a round table crowded with dishes.
Boys washing and soaking in a tiled public bath.
A white dog stands in a sunlit doorway.
Students in dark uniforms gathered outside a wooden building.
Two men in yukata sit on tatami beside a low table of food.
A small child walks down a narrow street past a pram and hanging laundry.
A woman in a patterned kimono stands beside a tree.
A young man in patterned shorts lies on tatami beside a low table of dishes.
A white dog lies on a wooden veranda.
A man in a white shirt and tie beside a lake, a woman behind him.
Children dig in the sand at night beside a parked car.