Pascal Greco

 Tokyo Flash

Upcoming book
Release date : May 27

”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

”Unlearning Tokyo. This is not a book about Tokyo. After two decades photographing the megapolis, Pascal Greco abandons compositions for instinct, accident and chance. Tokyo Flash is born of this deliberate derangement. The compact camera replaces the serious gear, the viewfinder becomes obsolete. The hand before the eye, the discharge before the decision. A road sign becomes a hallucinate object, a plastic panda takes on the air of an idol. Colors run wilds, reds turn toxics, greens go acidic.”
Blind Magazine

”TOKYO FLASH, which brings together around a hundred photographs taken in Tokyo during the summer of 2025 by photographer and filmmaker Pascal Greco. 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.”