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 »okinawa« | >> see all
-
Fences, Fuck You !! (Signed)
by Mao Ishikawa
sold -
Morika's Dreams (Signed)
by Mao Ishikawa
sold -
Nihonkoku Okinawa-ken
by Toshiaki Kanayama
sold -
Okinawa 1961-1970
by Tatsuo Kurihara
Euro 200 -
Records of Revolts 60-70 : ANPO, Okinawa and the Struggles on ...
by Tadao Mitome
sold -
Red Flower - The Women of Okinawa /Akabana - Okinawa no onna
by Mao Ishikawa
sold
more books tagged »japan« | >> see all
-
Coming up for Air
by Stephen Gill
Euro 45 -
HANAMI AOYAMA
by Keith NG
Euro 30 -
Black Pot (Signed)
by Shogo Yamada
sold -
MC HOTEL Tokyo (with envelop)
by Collective
Euro 15 -
Taisou (gymnastic)
by Yoshihiko Kurimoto
Euro 80 -
YUKI . SAKURA
by Risaku Suzuki
sold
more books tagged »yakusa« | >> see all
more books tagged »self published« | >> see all
-
Devotos
by Toni Amengual
sold -
The Afronauts (With Signed Print)
by Cristina de Middel
sold -
HOBBYIST ISSUE 06
by Pierre Hourquet
Euro 15 -
(Copy) 80. The Scharze Mönch (EDT OF 15)
by Sayako Sugawara
sold -
40 / The Place which does not exist (Signed)
by Tomasz Laczny
sold -
Sabine (Signed)
by Jacob aue Sobol
sold
more books tagged »osaka« | >> see all
-
City Lights (Signed)
by Yusuke Hanazaki
sold -
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 -
Tsugi no yoru e / On to the next night (Signed)
by Yusuke Yamatani
sold
more books tagged »Artist's book« | >> see all
-
TURNING REEL AFTER THE FILM (Edt of 7)
by Sergej Vutuc
sold -
Snowpark (SIGNED)
by Philippe Fragnière
Euro 45 -
Absentee
by Sayuri Ichida
sold -
Paper Walls (UNIQUE)
by David O'Mara
sold -
G. F. Y. (SIGNED AND NUMBERED, edt of 8)
by Anonymous
Euro 45 -
Le Gyroscope humain (UNIQUE AND SIGNED)
by Ivan Alechine
Euro 600
Books from the Virtual Bookshelf josefchladek.com