This project led to an invitation from Raul Reis, publisher and founder of No Frame Publishing, to be the first book in the “One City. One Name” collection, which presents the world and its cities through the eyes of different photographers with distinct visual approaches. The city I chose was Tokyo, photographed during my first trip in 2012.
It came from two weeks spent walking through streets and neighbourhoods, the old Tsukiji market, transport lines and everyday spaces, in an effort to capture the city’s rhythm. It is a project focused on people and on observing how the inhabitants of the world’s largest metropolis experience and move through their city from my own perspective.
Introduction and editor’s note:
The Tokyo of Luis, serves to our look a drunken melancholy. It sustains the fragility of the actors through their lens given us with subtle moments of monochromatic grace. It transports us to a city that is beyond the city described in banal and lazy guides. Reveals through a unique look at people the detail that goes beyond the obvious. Play with the subtlety of everyday life in the great and very imagined city. This Tokyo is banal and this is the greatest adjective of its grace.
