"Quem não lê, aos 70 anos terá vivido só uma vida: a sua. Os que leem terão vivido cinco mil anos. Ler é uma imortalidade de trás para a frente." Umberto Eco.
Retratos de Charles Fréger:
"Over the course of five trips, Fréger travelled through many inland areas and islands, experiencing Japan’s particular relief, its extent and the natural phenomena that regularly rock it. His extensive exploration of the archipelago has allowed him to sensitively grasp the reasons why the Japanese have an empathic relationship with their environment and their extreme awareness of nature’s vitality. Yokai, oni, tengu and kappa, which can be translated as ghosts, monsters, ogres and goblins, are ritual figures imagined by man and embodied during festivals and ceremonies as an attempt to tame the elements and find meaning in natural events. Presenting a variety of forms existing in Japan, the series undeniably achieves a documentary objective. Yet Fréger no longer seeks the realism of situations or comprehensiveness.His portraits are obviously partial in both meanings of the word. Herons, stags, ogres, demons and other figures from Japan’s bestiary are shown outside the context of festivities, moving around in rice paddies, fields or water.
Yokainoshima (‘the island of the Yôkai’) has become part of the personal cartography Fréger continues drawing one series after another, made up of lands inhabited by a humanity that is earthly and otherworldly at the same time."*
Uma seleção de fotografias que nos fazem viajar pelo mundo imaginário e fantasioso do pequeno arquipélago que compõe o Japão, numa diversidade de tradições, costumes e lendas que contam a história do seu povo.
[18 imagens para um dia 18]
Imagens retiradas da Internet.
Fonte:
https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/japan-s-ritual-ghosts-monsters-ogres-and-goblins/
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