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soft cover
21x29,5
60 pages (140g paper)

edition of 80
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JNN#1 japanese.neo.noir contemporary series
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This is the first JNN zine of a series dedicated to contemporary photography from Japan. I believe @gyoza_and_sake is not a person but a mischievous Yokai taking pictures. He has a playfulness and a versatility of approach, a curious voujeristic expressionism remodeled on the contemporary gratifying for the eye. His photograph and imaginative capacity has a clayey elasticized consistency, it makes you want to immerse the hands in the photo and touch those faces and bodies, to interact with them and create glimpses of intriguing narratives. In part, that's what we've done by putting this brief excursus together. He often loves to make diptychs and plays with his compositions and we have played with him. I know someone would be excited about an eventual plot. So, every spread is like a small story, after the sinister smiles in the first part, something disturbing is in the air, you can find collages influenced by the pandemic and something apocalyptic came out, from ravens and ghostly pedestrians through an oppressive atmosphere, to a dazed girl surrounded by newspapers, prisoner of a nervous and jarring overload of information. Is she in solitary confinement or has she been kidnapped? Why the blood on the newspapers? She tried to interpret this confusing and electrified flow of information until marching lollipops comes, again, but it's only a dream or a real rebirth? There's some distinct temporal phases pervaded by an undulating atmosphere of contrasting emotions and deja-vu. We have certainly tried to create a turbid Provokative visual structure, devoted and influenced by our passion for old fanzines and the photography from 70s, not least by a sort of kind of comics-attitude. For this reason, if you usually find the digital Gyoza and Sake "dark", i have to tell you that in the zine is darker and comes directly from the hell, take or leave.
(JNN, juli 2021)