Employees Must Wash Hands: A Bathroom Reader in Pictures
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Must Wash Hands, a collection of 120 artistic photographs, offers readers a peek into the private space of the public bathroomthat unspoken and indecent yet communal and necessary space that we enter and exit every day without a second glance.
With camera in hand, Carter Hasegawa travels the public bathrooms of Boston, New York, Seattle, Las Vegas, Honolulu, Indianapolis, and other American cities, snapping photos down urinals and documenting graffitied walls and wet, toilet paper-plastered floors. Photos are arranged chronologically” as a virtual public restroom walkthrough for the reader, and they highlight unsavory and savory bathroom elements you otherwise may not have noticedice cubes down a urinal, unconventional Employees Must Wash Hands” signs, interesting tile details, or a jar of baby food on the floor. These wry but intimate photos are interspersed with popular bathroom trivia, illegally overheard bathroom conversations, half-serious comments on proper” bathroom etiquette, and seriously real anecdotes.
For fans of offbeat photography and humor books such as Awkward Family Photos, People of Walmart, and Regretsy, Must Wash Hands transforms the crude and disgusting into something more compelling and beautiful, prompting the viewer to pause, admire, laugh, and connect.
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Employees Must Wash Hands - Carter Hasegawa
Introduction
When I first started this project, the most common question I’d get asked was, So what’s with all the bathrooms?
Fair question. I certainly didn’t set out to be the bathroom photo guy.
(God, I hope no one actually calls me that. Please, don’t call me the bathroom photo guy. What have I done?) And the idea of a book on public men’s rooms was the last thing I expected. I suppose Employees Must Wash Hands got started the way most unforgettable things do: at a bar.
Boston, 2015: Winter—it was cold as balls. When I posted my first photo to Instagram that January, I had no idea that we were about to enter our worst winter on record: 94 inches in February alone and over 108 inches by winter’s end. And because it was so cold, really the only thing to do was drink. Like a lot. Which is why nearly every photo in the book was taken at a bar. And by the time spring finally came around, it was too late: bathroom photos became my thing.
Employees Must Wash Hands isn’t about showing something crude or indecent. Granted, it could easily be that. But for me, it’s all about turning something private, something that is arguably disgusting, and making it … beautiful, compelling. In all my photos, I look for that special something that causes the viewer to pause, to admire, and to connect. Bathrooms are a communal place, after all.
Most of the photos in the book were taken around Boston where I live. But as I traveled throughout the past year, I always kept Employees Must Wash Hands in mind. And because all my friends knew what I was doing, so many of them sent me kind messages, encouraging me to keep doing whatever it was that I was doing. Of course, they were also sending me photos of bathrooms that they come across. Umm … thanks, friends!
My promise to you about the photos that follow: No people. No crap.
Enjoy!
Walking to the Bathroom
Stoddard’s
Boston, Massachusetts
"Always go to the bathroom when