Collection: Glow (Original Series)
Location: Tokyo, Hong Kong
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In July 2014, I discovered Tokyo for the first time and I was overwhelmed by the city atmosphere. When I came back I went trough my photos but ended up disappointed by the result. I couldn’t reproduce that feeling you get when you are in the middle of the street, of the chaos with all those people around you, the noise, the electricity. This overwhelming atmosphere wasn’t there anymore.
Two years later, inspired by the way Japanese anime are colorized, I remembered the work of Zhang Bin aka Benjamin who is a Chinese manhua artist and illustrator. I decided to give it another try by editing the colours of my photos in order to get more atmosphere and emotions from them.
Happy with the results I started publishing them and after all the positive feedback I got for the original series, I started processing some of my pictures of Hong Kong and I decided to make it my personal project for the coming years.
Glow is a collection of cities captured by night where the colours try to activate the brain in order to reproduce the variables you don't have on a photo, such as temperature, noise, motion. Glow is what you remember instead of what you’ve seen of a place.
It is still an ongoing project as of this day but the photographs on this page are part of the original series.
“Simply entitled Tokyo’s Glow, the photographs perfectly portray the unmistakably distinct spirit and energy of Japan’s capital city – a must-see for any discerning traveller.”
November 2016, I produced my first photography exhibition in collaboration with Inkut Lab. I provided them 33 photographs from my collection Glow and they printed each of them directly on brushed aluminum plate.
Teaser for the finissage of the exhibition.