On December 20th, I took part in a conversation with photographer Osamu Kanemura at Ebisu’s POST bookshop to celebrate his new photo book Concrete Octopus. Co-edited by Osiris in Tokyo and Lisbon’s Pierre von Kleist, the book of 40 plates has no real beginning, middle or end. In essence, Concrete Octopus is less of…

“Tokyo is not going to cry loud the memories that it contains within itself. ‘Reorganize the unorganised noises (what you think you hear is not what you hear) of a street, a railroad station, an airport… Play them back one by one in silence, and adjust the blend.’ That’s what…