Tokyo Candy Box by Koji Onaka (March 25, 2010) 
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Introduction by Marc Feustel
Koji Onaka has wandered around Japan, and particularly around the city of Tokyo, with his camera for many years. He began shooting in black and white but has since moved on to colour with very interesting results. Tokyo Candy Box is Onaka’s first series in colour and the heavily saturated aesthetic is the result of a failed experiment which gave him the unique palette for the series. Onaka focuses on the visual chaos of Tokyo and its proliferation of eye-popping colours as old Tokyo seems to give way to an increasingly virtual, imaginary city. His snapshots have a uniquely loose, natural quality which reinforces the feeling of following a man as he strolls through the city.
Marc Feustel is an independent curator, writer and blogger based in Paris. A specialist in Japanese photography, he is the author of Japan: a self-portrait, photographs 1945-1964 (Flammarion, 2004) and the creative director of Studio Equis (www.studioequis.net), an organisation devoted to broadening access to the visual arts between different cultures, with a focus on the relationship between Asia and the West. He blogs at Weblink: eyecurious.com
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