Two Perspectives on Tokyo

Two Perspectives on Tokyo pairs two photographers based in the same city into a single publication, setting Motoyuki Daifu's family-centered snapshots against Kenta Cobayashi's images of the young artists and friends sharing his Shibuya house.

Issued as a set of two 28-page zines rather than a single bound book, the project captures fragments of Tokyo as each photographer encountered it in 2015: Daifu's practice has centered on staged, cluttered scenes of his own family and girlfriend, while Cobayashi documents the loose, communal life of his share-house circle in blog and zine form. Newfave published the set in 2016 in an edition of 100.

The pairing places two distinct strands of contemporary Japanese snapshot photography side by side: Daifu's domestic maximalism and Cobayashi's more glitch- and collage-inflected documentary style, both artists working in the self-published, small-run tradition that has defined much of the Tokyo photobook scene since the 2000s.