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Max Pinckers’ series Two Kinds of Memory and Memory Itself looks at the strange place Japan holds in the collective mind of the West. Projected as other and isolated, Japan’s unique self image is in part self-created under the project of nation building, as well as being a construct of outside perspective and popular fetishisation. Japan is a target for Western fantasies, often informed by clichés of barrel chested Yakuza, manicured bonsais, cosplayers, wasted bankers, and sumo’s. On his arrival in Japan Pinckers found little evidence of these motifs and none of these preconceived elements seemed to be the most culturally predominant.
This conflicting experience resulted in him searching for these constructs within the contemporary Japanese landscape, creating staged scenes influenced by cliché and by existing images created by foreigners.
Photographs from this series will be on show at New Blood: Magnum Photos at @Milk Gallery in New York, April 13 – May 8.
More info: http://bit.ly/MagnumNewBloodNY
This image: A Sudden Gust of Wind (after Wall & Hokusai). From the series Two Kinds of Memory and Memory Itself. Max Pinckers. 2015. © #MaxPinckers/#MagnumPhotos

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