Ilse Leenders Photography

Ilse Leenders Photography

Ilse Leenders

Equilibrated Evolution

Tokyo Monogatari

Hommage à Theo & Nelly van Doesburg

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Paul Bert

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Absorbent Absurdness

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Tokyo Monogatari is a personal project inspired by the typical aspects of the daily contemporary life and the traditional cultural heritage of Tokyo. The atmosphere of the city is visualized by the synthesis of these different elements.
The series expresses at one side the habitual rituals of the citizens of Tokyo nowadays and at the other hand the exaggeration of bodily shapes drawn in the ancient manga of Hokusai and shown in the movements of the performers in Noh- and Kabuki theatre and the ‘hidden’ puppeteers of Bunraku in a photographic manner.

This project was made possible by: Tokyo Wonder Site, Japan and The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture.

Tokyo Monogatari won the 2nd Prize, Conceptual Photography, Viewbook Photostory 2009, Viewbook.com and the Award of Excellence 2009, 50th Annual Photography Exhibition, Communication Arts, United States of America.

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