{"id":2902,"date":"2011-06-01T11:15:43","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T15:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=2902"},"modified":"2011-06-01T11:16:17","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T15:16:17","slug":"featured-street-photographer-paolo-patrizi-on-the-streets-of-ginza-with-a-toy-camera-and-cosmopolitan-japanese-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/01\/featured-street-photographer-paolo-patrizi-on-the-streets-of-ginza-with-a-toy-camera-and-cosmopolitan-japanese-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Street Photographer: Paolo Patrizi, on the Streets of Ginza with a Toy Camera and Cosmopolitan Japanese Women"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Paolo<\/a>
Allure- Paolo Patrizi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Eric<\/em><\/span><\/strong>: For this week, I am honored to announce this street photography feature by Wayne Ford<\/a>, an internationally renowned media neutral and art designer. His work has received international acclaim and has been featured in books, exhibitions, and magazines including\u00c2\u00a0D&AD,\u00c2\u00a0Type Directors Club,\u00c2\u00a0Art Directors Club,\u00c2\u00a0Society of Publications Designers,\u00c2\u00a0Print,\u00c2\u00a0Graphis and\u00c2\u00a0Creative Review. You can read more of his thoughts on the photography he is looking at on his website<\/a> or follow him on Twitter<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Wayne<\/span><\/strong>: A self-taught photographer, Paolo Patrizi was born and raised in Italy, before moving to London in the mid-1980s where he began his professional career working as a
\nphotographic assistant, and undertaking freelance commissions for various design groups, and numerous magazines. From the very earliest stages of his career, Patrizi has pursued and develop his own personal projects alongside these various commercial assignments, and it is these personally assigned projects that have become a signature of his oeuvre.<\/p>\n

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\"Paolo<\/a>
Allure- Paolo Patrizi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To categorise Patrizi\u00ca\u00bcs output is dif\u00ef\u00ac\u0081cult, for he is what I would term a \u00ca\u00bbcomplete photographer,\u00ca\u00bc a rarity, who is equally accomplished in the many genre\u00ca\u00bcs of photography,
\nbut at the heart of his work, is the ability to create engaging and informative narratives, which have seen his stunning and insightful visual essays appear in such magazines as, Stern, Panorama, Corriere della Sera, GQ, Courrier Japon, Geo, XL Semanal, Handelsblatt, European Photography, The Observer Magazine, and Vanity Fair.<\/p>\n

\"Paolo<\/a>
Allure- Paolo Patrizi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

With his relocation to Tokyo in 2005, Patrizi has primarily focused on Asian issues (although not exclusively so), often immersing himself in his subject matter for months at a time, such as his recent essays on Cambodia, and Vietnam, where he has explored the underlying themes and \u00ca\u00bbcontradictions between traditions and modernity and cultural disconnections produced from rapid economic growth,\u00ca\u00bc that is evident across the region, and is a common theme evident in much of his work from the region.<\/p>\n

\"Paolo<\/a>
Allure- Paolo Patrizi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But alongside these extensive, and in-depth bodies of work, and the numerous extended trips over several years, he also produces smaller, more intimate bodies of work closer to home, on the streets of the Japanese capital, and elsewhere, such as his \u00ca\u00bbStarling\u00ca\u00bc<\/a> series, a very graphical, almost abstract series produced on a brief visit to his native Rome, which garnered him with a World Press Award in 2009, one of many such international awards that have come his way.<\/p>\n

\"Paolo<\/a>
Allure- Paolo Patrizi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On the streets of Ginza \u00e2\u20ac\u201d a district of Chuo, known for its upmarket department stores, and designer retail outlets \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Patrizi worked with a toy camera and black-and-white \u00ef\u00ac\u0081lm, to create a vignette of the young and chic women who frequent the area. Here amongst the latest seasons fashion of big sunglasses, and even bigger handbags, we experience an elegance that is distinctly cosmopolitan Tokyo, but we also encounter a young woman wearing a traditional kimono. Acting as a visual metaphor, this exposes the dichotomy of modern Japan, a country that on one level is one of the most modern cultures in the world, and yet at the same, its social and cultural roots are \u00ef\u00ac\u0081rmly embedded in many millennia of ancient tradition.<\/p>\n

\"Paolo<\/a>
Allure- Paolo Patrizi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Earlier this year Patrizi took to the garbage strewn streets of historic Naples on another of his visits to his homeland, \u00ca\u00bbThe garbage crisis in Naples encompasses the worst Italian clich\u00c3\u00a9s, and in particular those of the southern part of this lovely peninsula: mismanagement, political interference, ma\u00ef\u00ac\u0081a pro\u00ef\u00ac\u0081teering and the ability of those responsible to de\u00ef\u00ac\u201aect the attention and the blame elsewhere,\u00ca\u00bc he writes of a situation that saw refuse accumulate over a period of many weeks, and was only \u00ef\u00ac\u0081nally collected when it became so bad that the government intervened, and ordered the military to collect the garbage.<\/p>\n

\"Paolo<\/a>
Allure- Paolo Patrizi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

During his time in London, Patrizi worked on a number of these smaller but no less focused and powerful projects, including an investigation into the strip joints of London\u00ca\u00bcs
\nEast End that sprung up in local pubs, or \u00ca\u00bbboozers\u00ca\u00bc as they are known locally, during the 1990s. Although not street photography in the same sense as his Ginza, or Naples work, it is a good example of Patrizi\u00ca\u00bcs craft and approach to his photographic art. With his Leica hidden under his coat, he went unnoticed as he documented not only the strippers as they performed on makeshift stages, including snooker tables, and bar tops; but also the regulars who frequent such venues, capturing the raw reality of these gritty back street \u00ca\u00bbboozers,\u00ca\u00bc capturing a moment of rich social history.<\/p>\n

\"Paolo<\/a>
Allure- Paolo Patrizi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Whilst sleeping in public, or whilst at work might be frowned upon in the western world, in Japan it is a sign on an employee\u00ca\u00bcs commitment to their job and employer. \u00ca\u00bbInemuri\u00ca\u00bc is viewed as exhaustion from working hard, and sacri\u00ef\u00ac\u0081cing a good nights sleep, says Patrizi, who captures businessman asleep in their parked cars, of\u00ef\u00ac\u0081ce lobby\u00ca\u00bcs, and on trains, in and around Tokyo. Whilst his series of portraits captured on the metropolis\u00ca\u00bc streets focus on the now ubiquitous wearing face masks \u00e2\u20ac\u201d which protect the wearers from germs and infections \u00e2\u20ac\u201d masks which have become a visual motif of modern day Japan.<\/p>\n

\"Paolo<\/a>
Allure- Paolo Patrizi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Across the spectrum of Patrizi\u00ca\u00bcs work, we see an approach to visual storytelling that is marked by an intellectual and artistic vigor, at the heart of which is a compassion and feeling for the people and cultures he reveals in his vibrant essays.<\/p>\n

Links to Paolo Patrizi<\/h3>\n

http:\/\/www.paolopatrizi.com
\n<\/a> http:\/\/paolopatrizi.posterous.com<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/paolopatrizi<\/a>
\n <\/strong><\/p>\n

C<\/strong>aptions<\/strong><\/p>\n

Untitled, from the series Allure<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Links to Wayne Ford<\/h3>\n

http:\/\/wayneford.posterous.com\/<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/wayneford<\/a><\/p>\n

What do you think about Paolo’s work or Wayne’s storytelling? Let us know what you think by leaving a comment below! <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

D&AD<\/em>,\u00c2\u00a0Type Directors Club<\/em>,\u00c2\u00a0Art Directors Club<\/em>,\u00c2\u00a0Society of Publications Designers<\/em>,\u00c2\u00a0Print<\/em>,\u00c2\u00a0Graphis<\/em> and\u00c2\u00a0Creative Review<\/em>.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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