Album Skin of the Nation, Shomei Tomatsu to piekna, wyjatkowa i niepokojaca, fotograficzna wizja powojennej Japoni.
"Sometimes a photographer is a passenger, sometimes a person who stays in one place. What he watches changes constantly, but his watching never changes. He doesn't examine like a doctor, defend like a lawyer, analyze like a scholar, support like a priest, make people laugh like a comedian, or intoxicate like a singer. He only watches... A photographer is someone who wagers everything on seeing" - Shomei Tomatsu