Tokyo Tension

• Prize
  Bronze in Book/Fine Art
• Photographer
  Andreas Kremer
• Photo Date
  2018

I´m currently editing a photobook about my several Tokyo visits. The subscription contains cover + several double pages of this photobook. I'm fascinated by the supposed contrasts that always keep coming up in Tokyo, seen from a european perspective. The tension between individuality and conformity, intimacy and publicity, as well as other opposites that seem unusual or even incompatible according to the Western European cultural standard, fascinate me and are the reason for this book.

Andreas Kremer, living in Cologne/Germany, began his artistic path after he had worked successfully in business for many years. Never losing touch with photography during the years, 2014 he changed his focus completely to photography as visual art, and hasn’t put down his camera since. The fascination for Japan culminated in his first photo book TENSION in 2019 (KERBER Verlag). Since 2020 he is using the collage technique in a modern, digital form in his ongoing project “The Last Resort”, following the tradition of using collages to point out social or political grievances.