Tokyo Plain

In the morning hours, many times driven by jet lag, the Austrian Photographer Edgar Honetschläger wanders through a still deserted Tokyo. The sky is still grey and overcast, only few people are yet out on the the streets on their way to work or elsewhere. This is how he shows us the city he moved to in 1991 and which he likes to call his own. "His" Tokyo is part of an ordinary, every-day Japan: the real life, not the media-stereotype. Single-family-homes with a two feet wide garden around them, not skyscrapers; relicts of the rural-agricultural tradition of japan within the megalopolis instead of Blade Runner- futurism. As an author - his words are stories and personal experiences of life in the japanese metropolis and poem-like, meditative observations - Edgar Honetschläger seeks as well for isles of calm in urban Tokyo. The texts are arranged like bookmarks between the pictures, which were taken with a deliberately plain middle-format camera. Edgar Honetschläger (born 1967 in Linz, Austria) lives in Vienna and Tokyo and works as a filmmaker, screenplay writer and graphic artist. TOKYO REPELS YOU, IT SPITS YOU OUT, BUT IT LOVES YOU IF YOU SHARE ITS "MALADIE"