What makes Japan such an desired place for photography? I'm really trying to understand the hype around it. When I visited of course the size of Tokyo itself opens lots of opportunities but I quickly notice that it gets repetitive rather fast. All muh taxis look the same, the buildings have a pattern that repeats a lot. If you've seen a few shrines/temples.. in the end they all look the same. Even if you visit other prefectures you won't see much of a difference. Whenever I see camera vlogs or flickr uploads in Japan I now tend to skip because it's always the same. My current number one location would probably be Germany. Still safe enough to bring your camera with you, every state has it's own architectural style. Towns are usually a comfy mix between old medieval houses in the center with grim 60s bauhaus constructions that look really odd. Also home of Leica where this sort of everyday compact photography started. What do you think? What's your prefered location?
has a retro vibe, like a 90’s filter written all over it
I'm generalising, but their society values and prioritises "aestheticism" and beauty like few other places do. That mindset just naturally blends into pretty much every aspect of their life and environment.I'm not saying they don't have ugly shit, terrible places, bad people and other places around to world aren't beautiful too. My point is just when the baseline of their society values beauty at the level they do, then you see it pop up everywhere in a natural way. It's not hard to understand why so many people fall in love with the place. Kinda how people used to fall in love with Paris back in the day.It gets repetitive because of the amount of tourism they have. I saw a guy post a few photos from Taiwain on (dare I say) Reddit the other day saying something like "Is Taiwan the new Japan?" and everybody commenting on it went absolutely nuts about how racist that was to say and fuck white people and all that shit, when the guy clearly meant it was about photographer hot spots changing now that Japan has been overrun for a while. It was the most stereotypical comment section you've ever seen. It was almost like a caricature, but they were totally serious. I like the colours in the photo too, what's the source on that image?
>>4484406I kinda get what you are saying. I can't deny that they have a good sense of natural aesthetics. The way they treat and decorate with potted plants for example.Yeah, isn't the Reddit community also often very pro China? I read comments of something like "if Taiwan isn't part of China, then Okinawa should also be disconnected from Japan"Photo is from Adrien Sanguinetti. A french(?) that married a Japanese, living there and doing said photo vlogs.
>>4484424Yeah, I've been there a few times, but that was pre 2020. But I just noticed it everywhere. That natural awareness and presentation of beauty even in related to completely mundane things.I don't know, I haven't looked at Reddit enough to see if there's a big pro China sentiment. That thread was more "Don't you know the history between Taiwan and Japan you incensitive white bastard with exoticism fetish!" "I'm x-race and I think what you said is bad because of a,b and c!"The handful of comments that correctly explained what the photographer's point was all got thumbs down, minus points, bad karma or whatever that shit is called. I just had a look over there because I'm too old for 99% of the shit I see on this site, but it really is fucking ridiculous.Thanks, I'll check his stuff out. I know there are tons of other photographers getting the same look. I just really like the colours in that image.
