SUMIMASEN (EDT OF 300)

Pierrick Patarin
SUMIMASEN (EDT OF 300)

Photographs: Pierrick Patarin

Publisher: Self-published

128 pages

Pictures: 64

Year: 2023

ISBN: 979-10-415-1640-7

Price: 40 €

Comments: Softcover with a tipped photograph on the back cover, 23 x 16,5 cm, color photographs. Edition of 300 copies. Text in French.

"SUMIMASEN, "to apologize" in Japanese. An inescapable phrase, it's used in every situation, especially when approaching people. The following images were taken during the winter, on my first trip to Japan in 2019, just before the pandemic, then just after when the borders reopened in 2022. The cities I passed through and the faces I met along the way are somewhere between modern and traditional, if not simultaneously. I met personalities of all ages and social situations. Sometimes sober, sometimes eccentric. All these everyday scenes take place in:

TOKYO

KANAZAWA

OSAKA

HIROSHIMA

& MATSUMOTO"

- Excerpt from the introduction, translated from French