"Okinawa Mon Amour" by Chloé Jafé (Signed)

In this photographic and sentimental wandering, the second chapter of Chloe Jafé’s trilogy, the French photographer paints a portrait with great accuracy of this island, isolated from the rest of Japan. In Okinawa, which was destroyed during WWII, time seems to have stopped. Jafé commits to reveal the stigmata of a past that still binds the facades and faces and the dark corners of an island where pirates in distress and good-time ladies continue to flock.
 
Her work brings to light men and women ostracised from society, who have established performance as a religion, unveiling their peculiarity in all its tenderness and its distress.

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Over the years, Chloé Jafé has developed a style that is both visual and documentary, and viscerally personal. From her 7 years of immersion in Japan (2013-2019), Chloé Jafé has brought back images in steely black and white, sweaty and harsh, tender and fierce, revealing an unprecedented vision of an opaque country.

Her trilogy, comprising the chapters "I give you my life", "Okinawa mon amour" and "How I met Jiro", highlights the little-known and subversive aspects of an archipelago where modesty is de rigueur.

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Edition: First Edition | Signed
Publication Year: 2023
Condition: Like New
Notes: All items are final sale.