Tempura Hors Series 23
100 never-before-seen photos of Japan - The Archipelago as you've never seen it
Japan deals with its share of clichés . You just have to type “photos of Japan” on a search engine to see how monolithic our vision of the Archipelago is: cherry blossoms, Mount Fuji, red torii , a woman in a kimono ... does this say about Japan? But above all, what does this say about us?
TEMPURA was born from this desire to break these exotic clichés , while highlighting the work of the photographers who accompany our journalists. Far from being just an illustration of words, the image also tells a story, and is often sufficient in itself.
In four years, we have accumulated thousands of photos from all over the Archipelago , but also countless portraits of artisans, artists, writers, activists, gangsters and false rebels, Japanese ordinary to extraordinary stories. These images of a Japan that we rarely see in the media make our magazine famous, and form the essence of our editorial line: showing a Japan that is different from the usual clichés, a bit offbeat, but undoubtedly much more anchored in the real.
The magazine medium being inherently limited, we have kept these photographs, never published until then, in the hope of one day being able to show them to you. For this special edition, we have selected 100 photographs, which reflect our vision of Japan : raw, intimate, without taboos, sometimes eccentric, always sensitive and embodied. Photos from both our reports and our personal archives during our exploration trips, to take you behind the scenes of producing a magazine about Japan. All in a new, larger collector's format, completely redesigned for the occasion.
100 never-before-seen photos of Japan - The Archipelago as you've never seen it
Japan deals with its share of clichés . You just have to type “photos of Japan” on a search engine to see how monolithic our vision of the Archipelago is: cherry blossoms, Mount Fuji, red torii , a woman in a kimono ... does this say about Japan? But above all, what does this say about us?
TEMPURA was born from this desire to break these exotic clichés , while highlighting the work of the photographers who accompany our journalists. Far from being just an illustration of words, the image also tells a story, and is often sufficient in itself.
In four years, we have accumulated thousands of photos from all over the Archipelago , but also countless portraits of artisans, artists, writers, activists, gangsters and false rebels, Japanese ordinary to extraordinary stories. These images of a Japan that we rarely see in the media make our magazine famous, and form the essence of our editorial line: showing a Japan that is different from the usual clichés, a bit offbeat, but undoubtedly much more anchored in the real.
The magazine medium being inherently limited, we have kept these photographs, never published until then, in the hope of one day being able to show them to you. For this special edition, we have selected 100 photographs, which reflect our vision of Japan : raw, intimate, without taboos, sometimes eccentric, always sensitive and embodied. Photos from both our reports and our personal archives during our exploration trips, to take you behind the scenes of producing a magazine about Japan. All in a new, larger collector's format, completely redesigned for the occasion.
100 never-before-seen photos of Japan - The Archipelago as you've never seen it
Japan deals with its share of clichés . You just have to type “photos of Japan” on a search engine to see how monolithic our vision of the Archipelago is: cherry blossoms, Mount Fuji, red torii , a woman in a kimono ... does this say about Japan? But above all, what does this say about us?
TEMPURA was born from this desire to break these exotic clichés , while highlighting the work of the photographers who accompany our journalists. Far from being just an illustration of words, the image also tells a story, and is often sufficient in itself.
In four years, we have accumulated thousands of photos from all over the Archipelago , but also countless portraits of artisans, artists, writers, activists, gangsters and false rebels, Japanese ordinary to extraordinary stories. These images of a Japan that we rarely see in the media make our magazine famous, and form the essence of our editorial line: showing a Japan that is different from the usual clichés, a bit offbeat, but undoubtedly much more anchored in the real.
The magazine medium being inherently limited, we have kept these photographs, never published until then, in the hope of one day being able to show them to you. For this special edition, we have selected 100 photographs, which reflect our vision of Japan : raw, intimate, without taboos, sometimes eccentric, always sensitive and embodied. Photos from both our reports and our personal archives during our exploration trips, to take you behind the scenes of producing a magazine about Japan. All in a new, larger collector's format, completely redesigned for the occasion.
