The first confinement is an opportunity to take the time to finally sort out his photographic archives, where Parisian nights rub shoulders with the streets of Japan, where he went for the first time in 2011 and which he has since considered his third adopted country. Locked up like millions of others, the (re)discovery of these pictures gives him the impression of traveling in this nocturnal Tokyo whose doors will remain closed to foreigners for several years. From images to memories, a story is reconstructed. Bruno Labarbère then shows his work to photographers, booksellers, journalists, publishers, and assimilates each of the criticisms. While the shots were not premeditated, everyone sees a different artistic reference in them: Daido Moriyama for the spontaneity, William Klein for the scenes of life, Ed van der Elsken for the shadow play. Over the returns, the project evolves to become this book to be published by Hemeria editions.

Admitted in residence at the Festival Planches Contact 2022 as part of the Tremplin Jeunes Talents, he exhibited last fall at the Franciscaines museum in Deauville: a nocturnal stroll through the bars of the city…