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Motohashi Seiichi and Robert Doisneau Meet in Tokyo

Tokyo Photographic Art Museum’s latest show highlights an affinity between two masters’ that goes way beyond shared subject matters.

"Motohashi, beware of La Compagnie des Zincs, these people are dangerous! They've had my skin and my liver." Robert Doisneau, June 1991. In the summer of 1991, Japanese photographer Seiichi Motohashi travelled to France for a much-anticipated meetin...

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Marigold Warner

Marigold Warner is a bilingual British-Japanese writer based between Tokyo and London. She is a trained journalist specialising in visual art, with words published by British Journal of Photography, Dazed, The Face, Gal-dem, Disegno, Architects Journal and more.

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