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GAIJIN OMOIDE POROPORO HIKARI

Text by David Favrod, English, 21 × 23.5 cm, 344 pages, 128 color and black & white plates, softcover
Kodoji Press, Baden 2022, ISBN 978-3-03747-110-4

This publication brings together a tripartite series by Swiss-Japanese artist David Favrod in which he examines and invents his binational identity. The three elements of the series are Gaijin (Japanese for foreigner), Omoide Poroporo (a Japanese expression meaning ‘memories like falling rain’) and Hikari (which means light). As an 18-year-old man Favrod, whose mother is Japanese, requested Japanese dual nationality but did not meet the bureaucratic requirements. Since then, through his photographic practice, he has staged his own Japan in Switzerland in the series Gaijin; considered his own identity, and the challenge of objective self-portrayal, in Omoide Poroporo; and reflected on how other people’s memories, particularly family memories, influenced him in Hikari. The works are a mixture of found images, documentary and staged shots, and digitally reworked and collaged files.
Favrod’s works are presented with their titles across the image, akin to film subtitles, another echo of culture in translation. At the back of the book, supplementary information regarding the images is printed in reverse; it can be read through the page, echoing what is called ‘Japanese binding’ where the paper front edges remain closed.

PIXEL CAMOUFLAGE

Special edition, C/O Berlin Talents
2013
37,5 x 30 cm
Archival pigment print
Edition of 20
Signed and numbered

OMOIDE POROPORO

Self published by David Favrod / ECAL
Distributed by Kodoji Press
First edition of 100
21,5 x 24,5 cm, 50 pages
Japanese binding with loose leaf metal fasteners
Signed and numbered, 1 unbund photograph
2010
ISBN 978–3–03747–019–0
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L’ENVOLEE DE POUSSINS

Special edition, Aperture Foundation NY
2010
Image Size: 23 3/5 x 18 9/10 inches
Paper Size: 27 3/5 x 23 3/5 inches
C-print
Edition of 25 and 2 artist's proofs
Signed and numbered