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愛しいの沖縄 | ITOSHI NO OKINAWA | OKINAWA MON AMOUR

© Chloe Jafe

In this photographic and sentimental wandering, the second chapter of her trilogy, the photographer paints a portrait with great accuracy of this isolated island from the rest of Japan. In Okinawa, which was destroyed during WWII, the clocks seem to have stopped. Chloé Jafé takes her side by revealing the stigmata of a past that still binds the facades and faces and the dark corners of an island where corsairs in distress and good-time ladies continue to accost.

These men and women, ostracised from a society that sets up performance as a religion, Chloé Jafé puts them into the light by revealing a marginality in all its tenderness and distress.

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Limited Handmade Edition of 30 / Numbered & Hand-signed

•   limited handmade edition of 30
•   numbered and signed
•   accompanied with 1 gelatin silver print (23.5 x 16 cm, edition of 10 each)



Size: 260 x 200 mm
Pages: 184 Pages, 90 Images
Publication Date: 2020
Language: Japanese, English
Publisher: Self-published

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