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” in 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?
This issue of TEMPURA is born from this desire to break with these exotic clichés, at the same time 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 enough on its own.
In four years, we have accumulated thousands of photographs from the four corners of the archipelago, but also countless portraits of artisans, artists, writers, activists, gangsters and false rebels, Japanese stories from ordinary to extraordinary. the real.
As the magazine's support is inherently limited, we have preserved these photographs, never published until then, in the hope of being able to show them to you one day. For this special edition, we have selected 100 photographs that reflect our vision of Japan: raw, intimate, without taboos, sometimes eccentric, always sensitive and embodied. Photos from our reports and our personal archives during our exploration trips, to show you behind the scenes of the production of a magazine about Japan. All in a new larger collector format and completely redesigned for the occasion.
100 photographs with captions but no comments, with one quote at most, to give the reader space to create their own imagination. It is often said that a picture is worth 1000 words. Everyone is free to write their Japanese story and add the images that seem most accurate to them.

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