The Provoke Moment

Japanese Photography

The radical new vision of the 1960’s

founded in Tokyo, 1968 by Daido Moriyama, Takuma Nakahira, Takahido Okada, Yutaka Takanashi, and Koji Taki.

“It’s about being open to photography having different characteristics, potentials, and possibilities beyond the descriptive use of the photographic image”.

These magazines created a new visual language while examining Japan’s socio-political situation.

Known for blurry, grainy, + random compositions <3