Pocko Editions | Yamanote

Iñigo Asis (b. 1969, Madrid) is a photographer who has published widely in Europe and Japan. Trained as a fine artist, he found, shortly after leaving the Royal College of Art, that publishing, fashion and advertising were more appealing grounds to develop his ideas. Recently he edited Big magazine’s issue 29, dedicated to Spanish popular culture.

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Iñigo Asis’s photographs, taken on Tokyo’s circle line, exploit the sense of ‘curtains opening’, when the unsuspecting passengers momentarily confront the waiting photographer. More than a study in urban existentialism, this is also a sociological document; a subterranean investigation into the modes of appearance and the behaviour of Japanese salary men in the most routinely awkward and uncomfortable social conditions.

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