2nd LUCAS GIBSON

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This essay was conducted during my exchange program in Osaka, Japan, in the year  of 2015. Throughout the procedure, I could see that the overwhelming majority of the works related to Japan are produced in or towards the capital Tokyo, so that photography itself, on some scale,

ends up producing the

establishment of a more homogenous and an unilateral view of the Japanese society. In addition, my main motivation in performing this essay was

to represent a youth that is, till these day, segregated by its choices that challenge taboos of a society attached to tradition, such as the use of tattoos and piercings and issues related to gender identity and sexual orientation. Although the photos were taken on Japanese soil, they represent more

than one microcosmo of an archipelago erroneously seen as "too homogeneous": in fact, they seek to exalt the freshness of the transgressive youth, who do not submit to traditional positions and dare to renew and innovate in the name of the new times, the human uniqueness and the ephemerality of life, even in the face of societies that threaten to exclude or segregate youth who dares to be itself.

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