After a fateful encounter with Eugene Smith, Morinaga retired from Iwanami Productions and worked as Eugene's Hitachi production assistant for about a year.
After Eugene returned to Japan, Morinaga began working as a freelance photographer, and moved to New York in 1967 at the age of 30. While working part-time as a ticket seller at a movie theater showing underground films, Morinaga shoots the streets of New York.
After returning to Japan in 1969, Jun Morinaga held a photo exhibition titled "…
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