Portrait éphémère du Japon

Continuing an anthropological and social photographic project initiated in 2016 in Cuba and which he will pursue in 2024 in Israel, Pierre-Elie de Pibrac criss-crossed Japan between December 2019 and August 2020 to produce the Hakanai Sonzai series. In the course of this immersive investigation, the artist met with individuals seeking to express the singularity of a personal story through their participation in the photographer's project: yakuzas, Fukushima survivors, hikikomori or "evaporates" who have opted for voluntary disappearance...