Arts & Culture

Tokyo Love Hello

Chris Steele-Perkins' book offers a complex and layered vision: an ambiguous love song to an extraordinary city

Chris Steele-Perkins

Chris Steele-Perkins | Tokyo Love Hello Man on his phone in Shibuya. Tokyo, Japan. 2002. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins | Tokyo Love Hello View from a coach. Tokyo, Japan. 2005. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins | Tokyo Love Hello Homeless in Shinjuku. Tokyo, Japan. 1998. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins | Tokyo Love Hello Salarymen on subway. Tokyo, Japan. 1997. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins | Tokyo Love Hello A maltese dog gets a bath in mud from the red sea. Tokyo, Japan. 2003. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins | Tokyo Love Hello Cat friendly gym. Tokyo, Japan. 2004. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins | Tokyo Love Hello Virtual Reality helmets at the Tokyo motor show. Tokyo, Japan. 1999. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins | Tokyo Love Hello Sumo Tournament at Kokugikan, Sumotri. Tokyo, Japan. 2005. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins | Tokyo Love Hello Young boys at the Toyo University Sumo club. Tokyo, Japan. 2004. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins | Tokyo Love Hello People waiting for festival parade. Tokyo, Japan. 2004. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins | Tokyo Love Hello Business district in Shinjuku. Tokyo, Japan. 1999. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins | Tokyo Love Hello Self portrait with Miyako in NHK lobby, Shibuya. Tokyo, Japan. 2003. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins | Tokyo Love Hello Cafe in Makuhari Messe. Tokyo, Japan. 2003. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins | Tokyo Love Hello Sumo wrestler Sentoryu (real name Henry Miller) from USA retires. This means cutting the hair which was worn in a top-knot. Tokyo, Japan. 2004. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins | Tokyo Love Hello Portrait studio at Film Studios. Tokyo, Japan. 2003. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins | Tokyo Love Hello Roadworks. Tokyo, Japan. 2003. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins | Tokyo Love Hello Oeno park. Tokyo, Japan. 2003. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos

The second book by Chris Steele-Perkins on Japan, Tokyo Love Hello offers a highly personal response to Tokyo, the city where he met and fell in love with his wife, Miyako Yamada.

Following on from his first book Fuji, a document and social critique of Japan exploring the life around that great mountain, the new work sees Steele-Perkins turn his vision on the country’s capital. Seen through his sharp but sympathetic eyes, Tokyo appears in many guises, calm, manic, comic, surreal, elegant and elusive.

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