Chloé Jafé - How I met Jiro (special handmade edition)

Chloe Jafé
How I met Jiro (special handmade edition)

Published by Chloé Jafé, 2022
Book format 20 x 26 cm
112 pages
Hardcover
Languages Japanese, English
Produced with the support of the National Center for Plastic Arts.
Swiss binding, black and white photographs and color illustrations.
Signed and numbered
Hardcover (comes with a fabric sleeve)
Limited edition of 30 copies
Included: a numbered silver gelatin print (23.5 x 19 cm), limited edition of 10.

The final chapter of her trilogy is an ode to Osaka's fallen. In this city, the third largest in the country, Chloé Jafé spent a long time exploring the Nishinari district, a neighborhood erased from tourist guides that attracts a population primarily composed of men, most of whom are over 60. There, she met and photographed homeless people, transvestites, retired gangsters, and those dismissed from capitalism who preferred to hide there rather than face the shame of being fired.

These workers no longer have a future on the horizon. Through this work, Chloé Jafé attempts to mend their history and modestly rehabilitate a little-known and muzzled part of Japan.

Text by the author.