HANDS OF TOKYO

HANDS OF TOKYO

A photobook by Caroline Grimpel, published by Simple Edition

Between 2020 and 2023, Caroline use the advantage of western phones, making no snapshot noise when used unlike Japanese ones, to secretly take pictures of subway passenger's hands. 
More than a simple collection of pictures, snapshots of the commuters of the  COVID era are framed to show no faces with traumatic face masks, neither intruding the privacy of face recognition.

About the Tokyo's subway, we find here a more relaxed atmosphere than "Tokyo Compression" (by Michael Wolf), with a space here for personal distraction and a larger framing revealing more social context in clothes and accessories. Also, the book is more like a piece of time like SHIBUYA 1999" (by Mike Nogami and Masami Takahashi), the reflection of cultural and societal habits and apparence of passengers will identify in some decades the time we see as present.

In the actual time of never ending hate, violence, and wars you'll find here quick meeting with non-judgmental people, and  for a short moment a bubble of comfort and peace, ...just the time of a commute.

Photographs and text in French, English and Japanese by Caroline Grimprel
Book design by Joanna Starck.
Published by Simple Editions (Fr.)
Full offset, 108 pages _ 12x16,4.
Hardcover, Edition of 500 copies
Red cover with metallic blue hot stamp.
isbn 978-2-9582481-2-3