Bunchland

Photographer Bruce Osborn and his wife and kids live in Tokyo and they’ve invented a new holiday. It’s called Oyako No Hi and it’s a day to celebrate the link between kids and parents (Oyako means parent and child in Japanese). In 1982, Bruce was shooting Tokyo punk rockers and decided to capture them with their parents to show the differences between generations. He was so moved by the images that came out of the shoot and how much they revealed about the relationship between kids and parents that he began work on a series of photos of families that has since become his life’s work. The Oyako series includes shots of kids and parents who are sumo wrestlers, tattoo artists, police officers, and kabuki actors some captured many times over the course of their lives. Bruce has photographed more than 1,000 Oyako and in 2003 he and his wife Yoshiko, who is his producer, launched Oyako day. It now takes place annually on the fourth Sunday of July smack in between Mother’s Day and Father’s Day. On Oyako day Bruce and his family invite 100 other families to his studio to have their portrait taken