Momoko Ikeda first photo book "Momoiro Eigyou"

Momoko Ikeda works as a talent sales representative for an entertainment production company while also working as a celebrity herself.She has also appeared in TV programs such as "Chiteki-kari Taro" (TV Tokyo), and has had her own solo photogravure in a weekly magazine alongside her company's celebrities.She is now releasing her long-awaited first photo book.The theme of the photobook, which was shot in Tokyo, Izu, and her hometown of Kitakyushu, is "An Adulterous Trip and Its Breakup.It is full of close-up photos that approach the realities of women in their twilight years.The photos are also noteworthy for the way they easily break through their own limits and take off their clothes.<Momoko Ikeda's comment> I never imagined that an amateur who wants to be in the limelight would be able to release her first photo book.Even though I am an amateur.And in his 30s.I really can't say "no way" enough.Wani Books approached us after seeing our photogravure on TV Tokyo's "Chitose Kikkataro" last year, in which we challenged a 10-kilogram diet.No way, right?I am very happy to have this wonderful opportunity.Three years ago, when I presented my first gravure, I had many opinions, but I feel that all of them worked in the right direction in my sales work since then.Thanks to the fact that people knew about Gravia, the conversation went smoothly and I was able to get a lot of work (laughs).Especially in this day and age of social networking, I don't really care if I'm behind the scenes or in the public eye, I just want to enjoy the opportunity to be an "amateur who wants to be on stage" (laughs).(Laughs.) It was with this in mind that I took on the challenge, and I think the finished product is as enthusiastic as I said it would be.I don't think I will have an experience like this twice, so I did my best.The theme of the film is "a sparkling girl working in the city who returns to her hometown after a breakup from her days of infidelity," and it is divided into three parts: the city, a trip to a hot spring, and the hometown.We originally had a series of meetings with the intention of making the hot spring scene the climax of the film, but the test-shoot-like shots in the city turned out to be more sensational than we had expected, and we like the result.I think the shots taken at the hotel in Shibuya, where we drank all the time, turned out to have many bold shots with drunken, natural smiles (laughs).I also asked them to shoot in Kitakyushu, my hometown, and they included scenes at my favorite "snack bar," and we also took snapshots at Tangae Market and in downtown Kokura, which made me feel nostalgic as I finished the trip.I never thought that I would be releasing a photo book, but it was quite exciting to see it myself, and I hope you will take a look at it, as it was shot very nicely!