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\n\u201cWe collect photos of Tokyo.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
That straightforward call to action comes from the \u201cGenzou\u201d project, run by Tamaki Hosobuchi and Kio Griffith. Its goal is to edit the fourth issue of the project\u2019s eponymous booklet using photos contributed by the public. Uniquely, they\u2019ve made the entire editing process public, exhibiting the photos collected at TOKAS throughout. \u201cPhotopia\/scotopia\u201d, the title of the project, refers to day and night vision \u2013 our ways of seeing in light and dark places respectively \u2013 and is explained as follows: photo: Genzou<\/p>\n Translation: Ili Saarinen<\/small><\/p>\n <\/p>\n photo: Genzou<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"photo: Genzou Developing the city \u201cWe collect photos of Tokyo.\u201d That straightforwa […]","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":2925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[73,151],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/realtokyo.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2911"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/realtokyo.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/realtokyo.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realtokyo.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realtokyo.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2911"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/realtokyo.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2914,"href":"https:\/\/realtokyo.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2911\/revisions\/2914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realtokyo.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/realtokyo.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realtokyo.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realtokyo.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n\u201cThe will of the city, in which bright prospects and dark secrets are intertwined, goes beyond changing blocks and buildings; it unconsciously affects the people passing through the city, down to the cellular level.\u201d<\/em>
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\nVisiting the exhibition surprised me. Photos printed on copy paper are not only plastered on walls, but also suspended from wires throughout the space \u2013 like photos developed in a darkroom back in the day and put up to dry with clothespins. The installation is sure to revive memories of darkrooms in quite a few participants. As photos for the project can be uploaded via Twitter and Instagram, I was expecting the works to be mainly of the \u201cInstagram-friendly\u201d type. Instead I was faced with a cavalcade of impressive shots, proving my expectations wrong. Look closely at the prints and you\u2019ll notice that the title and name of the artist are hand-written on them in small characters.
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\nPhotos by the likes of Daido Moriyama and Ryudai Takano are displayed alongside those of amateurs, with no distinctions made. At the gallery talk, current Bridgestone Museum of Art vice-director Michiko Kasahara called this a \u201ccruel way of exhibition\u201d. Sure, it might feel cruel toward the professionals, but likely also reveals the intentions of public editing. How will Tokyo respond to the call from \u201cGenzou\u201d? That response is devoid of professionals and amateurs \u2013 everyone is edited equally, in public. This method turns the locationless space of the internet into a darkroom, which develops images, unseen on social media, that reveal both the consciousness and unconsciousness of the city.
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\nIt struck me how interesting it would be to transplant this process to London and see what products of the unconscious would emerge. Expanding the horizons of modern photography, this is an innovative project that merits continued attention.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/realtokyo.co.jp\/_sys2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/DSC02214_story-711x1024.jpg\"){kind=spacer}
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