“Tokyo Odyssey is a street documentary on the strange and mysterious perspective of Tokyo and road trip down to Southern Japan, inspired by Chinese photographer Feng Li. Everyday I wandered around Tokyo through the crowd or waited in the street while eating my Onigiris. I am extremely fascinated by the nighttime Tokyo when people become closer to who they are. After spending a month in Japan, I find Japan is such a unique universe of its own – a collision of Eastern and Western, traditional and subculture, orders and chaos, polite and yet hysterical. When a universe can be so many things, it becomes surreal. I want to captures this sense of surreal essence of everyday life, blurring the lines between fiction and reality of this juxtaposed universe.”
Artist bio
Leafy Yun Ye is a Los Angeles-based photographer, born and raised in Guangzhou, China. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in New Media from SUNY Purchase. Her work focuses on links between migration, personal experience, cultural belongings, communities, and landscapes. Her artistic achievements include receiving the finalist for the Aperture Portfolio Prize 2023, AIS Open Women Behind The Lens, People Awards of the Independent Photographer, and the Adobe Creative Residency Community Grant. Her work has also been exhibited internationally at the 2023 Korea International Photo Festival at Hangaram Arts Center Museum, Photoville NYC, and others.
IG: @leafy.yeh
Website: www.leafyyeh.com
Credits
Photographer : Leafy Yun Ye
Thanks to: @zeyehongyi @rico0530 @urayaka @shojiasaba 純喫茶若松, Keiko Yamada, Alice Rao
Special thanks to: Paradise AIR