Chloé Jafé - How I Met Jiro (Handmade Special Edition)

Chloe Jafé
How I Met Jiro (Handmade Special Edition)

Published by Chloé Jafé, 2022
Book size 20 x 26 cm
112 pages
Hardcover
Languages Japanese, English
Produced with the support of the Center National des Arts Plastiques.
Swiss binding, b&w photographs and colors illustration.
Signed and numbered
Hardcover (come with a fabric pouch)
Limited edition of 30

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.