Japan swing
30 images Created 28 Nov 2016
On Japan, almost everything has been said, written, filmed, photographed. I therefore decided, for this first stay in the archipelago, that my subject would be the one of my first impression. And this was not long in showing. Actually, as soon I crossed the entrance gate of Narita Airport! More than an impression, a shock! Was it the bare architecture, the care brought to the cleanliness of places, the silence and discipline of this people, the omnipresence of nature in all places ? It was all this at the same time, something very present and yet impalpable: an atmosphere and, under reassuring appearances, an unsettling climate, a diffuse and disturbing feeling of a crowd oscillating between opposite poles, marked in its collective soul by a painful past and a codified social organization. But people also inexorably turned towards the future, hypnotized by the lights of progress and new prespectives of freedom!
An extreme tension betrayed by frozen faces, inhabited by anxious looks; a mechanical march or gesture contrasting with burlesque behaviors, extravagant clothing and, as soon as an "official" occasion presents itself (Halloween, for example), an unbridled joy!
Definitely a "Yin" and "Yang" country, for which this picture of the guard at the entrance of a private club in Tokyo- is probably the most representative of the "yin" part of my series !
An extreme tension betrayed by frozen faces, inhabited by anxious looks; a mechanical march or gesture contrasting with burlesque behaviors, extravagant clothing and, as soon as an "official" occasion presents itself (Halloween, for example), an unbridled joy!
Definitely a "Yin" and "Yang" country, for which this picture of the guard at the entrance of a private club in Tokyo- is probably the most representative of the "yin" part of my series !