City of Confessions #1: Tokyo

by
Ed Templeton
,
Super Labo
,
First
Edition
Edition
of 1000
2019
Softcover
Hand-stitched
binding
56
Pages
9
"
x
9.5
"
$ 38 
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The photographs in this book were taken during seven trips to Tokyo between the years 1998 and 2018, with the majority being shot between 2016 and 2018.

"I first came to Tokyo in 1998 on a skateboarding tour, and then again two times in 2001, first for a big citywide art exhibition called "Untitled 2001" and then again as a skateboarder later that year. Those first visits to Tokyo were full of walking and wandering and photographing in the streets when I wasn't skateboarding. Then in 2016 I came back to Tokyo as a tourist after a long absence. These more recent trips have been more focussed on shooting photographs and observing the life and rhythms of the people of Tokyo. I like to find moments that speak to human existence and specifically to the customs and rituals of life in Tokyo."

City Confessions #1 Tokyo is the first book in the City Confessions series. Each volume will be a selection of photographs from a city that I have spent significant time working in and exploring."

- Ed Templeton