Pascal Greco

 Tokyo Flash

Upcoming book
Release date : May 7

Book launches and talks :
Salon du livre de Genève, stand Infolio
- Thurday 26 March , 6:30pm-8:30pm
The Analog Club, Paris
- Vendredi 17 April, 6pm-7pm
Payot Rive Gauche, Genève — Talk with photographer Michèle Bloch-Stuckens

”Tokyo Flash, a book born of an instinctive approach and a punk spirit.”
Le Temps

“Pascal Greco transforms the Japanese capital into a blazing kaleidoscope. Somewhere between a chemical accident and an instinctive gesture, his images burst into colour. No academic composition: the photographer snaps the shutter as one would startle. Tokyo Flash is not a photography book: it’s a high-voltage urban adventure, it offers not a portrait, but a jolt. An optical experience where color becomes language, and chance, method.”
La Liberté

”Photographer and filmmaker Pascal Greco will present his new book, TOKYO FLASH, which brings together around a hundred photographs taken in Tokyo during the summer of 2025. This project was born out of a desire to capture the city in a different way: not to describe it, but to convey its vibe. To achieve this, Pascal Greco chose to use a compact, automatic camera. He decided to fire the flash before his gaze had time to settle. Without aiming, in a quick, almost accidental gesture, the image snatches a piece of the night, a fragment of colour. Nothing is framed, everything is captured.

The films were developed using cross-processing, producing unpredictable and contrasting hues, offering an altered vision of the city where chemistry plays its part. The image explains nothing; it flickers.
Thanks to his regular stays in Tokyo over the past twenty years for various photographic and film projects, Pascal Greco has now managed to detach himself from this megacity: the images are born in the moment they escape him. A drift of the aesthetics of chance, made possible by a deliberate absence of framing, unpredictable chemistry and flash.”