Trilogy (with prints)
Chloé Jafé
Trilogy (with prints)
Photographs: Chloé Jafé
Publisher: self published
456 pages
Year: 2020 / 2022
Comments: Hardcover (except for Okinawa), Swiss binding, b&w photographs and colors illustration. Signed edition limited of 30 copies with an original darkroom print.
命預けます | INOCHI AZUKEMASU | JE TE CONFIE MA VIE
In 2013, Chloé Jafé moved to Tokyo with the ambition to meet the women of the Yakuza.
But no one enters this mafia, one of the most legendary in the world, without being invited.
After spending a year perfecting her Japanese, immersing herself in the codes of a culture
miles apart from her own, having been a hostess in a bar and combing the city's red light
districts, the lock finally broke in. Through a lucky encounter and out of temerity.
Inducted by a Boss, she was able to approach these padlocked clans, their official rituals
and gatherings, the taboo and tattooed stories that their kimonos camouflage,
and through them, their wives, daughters and mistresses.
Women lurking in the shadow of the men to whom they have dedicated their existence,
marked on the skin by this dedication which automatically excludes them from society. The “gift of one’s life”, Inochi Azukemasu in Japanese, constitutes the first part of her trilogy.
愛しいの沖縄 | ITOSHI NO OKINAWA | OKINAWA MON AMOUR
In this photographic and sentimental wandering, the second chapter of her trilogy, the photographer paints a portrait with great accuracy of this isolated island from the rest of Japan. In Okinawa, which was destroy during WWII, the clocks seem to have stopped. Chloé Jafé takes her side by revealing the stigmata of a past which still bound the facades and faces, but also the dark corners of an island where corsairs in distress and good-time ladies continue to accost.
These men and women ostracized from a society that sets up performance as a religion, Chloé Jafé puts them into the light by revealing a marginality in all its tenderness and distress.
二郎との出会い | HOW I MET JIRO | COMMENT J'AI RENCONTRÉ JIRO
The final chapter in her trilogy is an ode to the fallen of Osaka. In this city, the third largest in the country, Chloé Jafé has traveled extensively in the district of Nishinari, a district erased from tourist guides that drains a population mainly made up of men, mostly over 60 years old. There she met and photographed homeless people, transvestites, retirees from banditry and those released from capitalism who preferred to hide there rather than face the shame of being fired.
These workers no longer have a future for the horizon. Through this work, Chloé Jafé tries to mend their history and modestly rehabilitate an unknown and muzzled part of Japan.
more books by Chloé Jafé
more books tagged »Artist's book« | >> see all
-
Interference 5 (EDT OF 25) SIGNED
by Maycec
sold -
Doubles- jeux
by Sophie Calle
Euro 75 -
MICROGRAPHIE DÉCORATIVE
by Laure Albin Guillot
sold -
le troisième angle
by Eva Klasson
sold -
טרער [trer] (LIMITED EDT OF 21)
by Alexia-Lazare Monduit
price on request -
Jardin (EDT OF 5 COPIES)
by Pia Elizondo
Euro 400
more books tagged »osaka« | >> see all
-
City Lights (Signed)
by Yusuke Hanazaki
sold -
Tsugi no yoru e / On to the next night (Signed)
by Yusuke Yamatani
Euro 150 -
Suits vs. Facts & Fiction (Numbered edt of 150)
by Katja Stuke
sold -
DISTANCE (SIGNED)
by Kazuyuki Kawaguchi
Euro 90 -
Horizon Far and Away 1968-1977
by Shunji Dodo
Euro 150 -
Osaka Station City (Signed and Numbered on 85 copies)
by Antony Cairns
Euro 250
more books tagged »yakusa« | >> see all
more books tagged »japan« | >> see all
-
The Pencil of the Sun, Okinawa & S.E. Asia
by Shomei Tomatsu
sold -
Rope Ladder and Iron Helmet: Collection of Photographs from th...
by Shigeru Tamura
sold -
Tokyo
by Hyonchi Cho
price on request -
Holy Night
by Issei Suda
Euro 35 -
HIKARI 2024 (Edt of 50)
by Collective
sold -
SPREADS 01 (SIGNED)
by Piotr Niepsuj
Euro 35
more books tagged »self published« | >> see all
-
Del reverso de las imágenes (Signed)
by Paolo Gasparini
sold -
The Incredible Case of the stack O' Wheats murders (Signed)
by Les Krims
sold -
The Penis and Vagina Selfie Book 2.0 (Limited edition of 100, ...
by Lukas Birk
sold -
Something Invisible (Signed and numbered to 100 copies)
by Hajime Inomata
sold -
The Afronauts (ONLY 50 COPIES WITH PRINT)
by Cristina de Middel
sold -
Entre deux (ONLY 100 COPIES - SIGNED)
by Pia Elizondo
sold
more books tagged »okinawa« | >> see all
-
Hot days in Camp Hansen (Signed copy)
by Mao Ishikawa
sold -
Okinawa 01 Off Base U.S. Family Housing
by Naobumi Okamoto
sold -
Okinawa 1961-1970
by Tatsuo Kurihara
Euro 200 -
Shashinshū Okinawa : hyakuman kenmin no kunō to teikō
by Collective
Euro 150 -
MONOKU YUSUDO OKINAWAKAIHOU HENO SHIKAKU
by various photographers
sold -
NON - Numéro 1 & 2
by Collective
sold
Books from the Virtual Bookshelf josefchladek.com