‘I’ve been several times in Japan, in Tokyo especially. The first time was for the traditional wedding of a japanese friend.That was such a revelation, I knew I had to spend more time there, not just feeling the city but really live in there. Few years after, I’ve been able to stay 6 months in Japan, mostly in Tokyo but also in countryside, like an out of time experience. My point was to translate everyday life in pictures, telling stories, trying to find hidden poetry, portraying people who live there, sometimes just being a witness. For me, Tokyo is an always changing town, a gigantic, never-ending and beautiful chaos. Over-crowded trains, omnipresent signs, dazzling lights, streets with no name, sounds, smells, all these things make Tokyo so unique. And so human after all.’ says the parisian photographer and art director.
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Photo Diary by Simon Oxley
Tokyo in the Dark
Three days after my landing, the evening of the 8th, a large aftershock shook us. A tremor with an intensity of 6 was recorded in the Tohoku region, to be specific near Miyagi, on the Japanese 7 stage seismic scale. Tokyo recorded 3 out of 7. (To compare the numbers it was 5+ in Tokyo on 3.11.) Although the shake itself wasn’t a terrifying experience for me, I immediately received some concerned messages from friends abroad. I turned on the CNN and BBC, they were reporting the earthquake in Japan as a breaking news. Reading some concerned messages from Japanese friends abroad, I imagined how I would have felt watching the news through the TV in the other side of the world. I was glad to be home.
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Feel free to send # Horst und Edeltraut your photo diary of Japan. We will be publishing a Japan Special photo diary by amateurs and photographers, in order to raise the general attention to Japan’s suffering situation at the moment. We thank everybody who has contributed so far, and would like to encourage everyone else to follow.
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Feel free to send # Horst und Edeltraut your photo diary of Japan. We will be publishing a Japan Special photo diary by amateurs and photographers every few days, in order to raise the general attention to Japan’s suffering situation at the moment. We thank everybody who has contributed so far, and would like to encourage everyone else to follow.
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Thinking of my previous and hopefully not last trip to Japan, fine memories come back into my mind. It was such an interesting and impressive journey, that I have problems to select only ten reminding and typical photographs. Three friends and I were keen to explore the whole country, but the ten days we had tightened our trip extremely and our prime focus lay on Tokyo and Kyoto.
Read morePhotodiary: MAC in Niteroi
The MAC (Museo de Arte Contemporanea) is in Niteroi, a city facing Rio de Janeiro from opposite the bay of Guanabara.
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