synopsis
This series is a play on the images conveyed by Japan through different societal archetypes: geisha, robots, dolls, salarymen, kimonos, yakuzas, sumos, etc. These are the images on which the exotic Western imagination has been built for a century and a half, following the opening up of Japan at the end of the 19th century during the Meiji era – whose name is derived from the kanji „light“, the foundation of photography. It is also a play on the concept of photographic truth in the fluctuating relationship that a documentary work can establish with fiction. As filmmaker Chris Marker wrote, „Inventing Japan is just another way of getting to know it“.
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technical information
Publisher : Les Editions de Juillet
2021
Fimensions : 22x29 cm
264 pages - 102 images
Canvas cover
Bilingual french / english
2021
Fimensions : 22x29 cm
264 pages - 102 images
Canvas cover
Bilingual french / english
about Nicolas Boyer
Photographer for 2 years after graduation from the Gobelins School of Images - Paris in 2003. Then a parenthesis of 12 years working as a creative in advertising. From 2016 to 2021, i joined the Studio Hans Lucas, one of the main French groups of professional photoreporters thanks to a cooptation by its founder, Wilfrid Estève.
Never having left my comfort zone, apart from having inadvertently entered a compartment reserved for women on the Cairo subway, i go mainly through urban landscapes, often wondering "what am I fucking doing here."
Never having left my comfort zone, apart from having inadvertently entered a compartment reserved for women on the Cairo subway, i go mainly through urban landscapes, often wondering "what am I fucking doing here."
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Publisher : Les Editions de Juillet
2021 (1st edition)
2021 (1st edition)