10/10/2025
✨ GINZA✨
Artist and publisher Andy Burgess’s latest monograph is an intimate and tactile book of Polaroids taken this last summer whilst traveling in Japan. Focusing on the high-end shopping and business district of Ginza in the heart of Tokyo this collection of soft mauve and lavender toned images is surprisingly poetic and painterly.
Known for its cutting-edge modern buildings, Ginza is home to the flagship retail stores of many of the world’s leading fashion brands such as Fendi, Hermes and Tiffany. Burgess’s soft focus and dream-like Polaroids reimagine these glass clad temples to consumerism as glistening light reflective sculptures. Architectural images are accompanied by other quirkier and unexpected visual delights, cars and bikes covered in protective tarpaulin like Christo sculptures and odd shaped windows that suggest an altered and abstract way of interpreting the visual world.
Seeking a temporary escape from digital image making, and a format that required a more discerning eye Burgess turned to the new Polaroid Flip instant camera. Discovering that the film stock itself can be unstable and unpredictable, Burgess leaned into the element of serendipity, delighted to discover that almost all the film shot in Ginza developed with a soft plum-like tone that created a unique and coherent body of images. The bookmaking process became a series of conscious choices to match the font, paper and card stock to the tonality of the prints. The result is a delightfully unique and poetic book that reads like a long poem in cherry blossom color. 🌸
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