A tireless explorer on the streets of Tokyo, the city where he has lived for a dozen years after two spent in Kyoto, Benoît Piquet finds that his curiosity is still excited by the city's manners and customs. Author and editor of the Louis Vuitton City Guide to Tokyo since its first edition, he also works for various media outlets, both French (Air France Madame, The Good Life) and Japanese (Pen). In addition to his editorial work, he is the Tokyo representative of the Des Quatre video company, and is Japanese bureau president of the trend forecasting agency NellyRodi.
Journalist, author and representative of the Capa Agency in Shanghai, where he also manages the At-The Place to Be agency, Michel Temman has been Tokyo correspondent for the French daily newspaper Libération (2002-12) and has written for Elle, Vogue Homme, L'Obs and L'Insensé. He was editor-in-chief of Le Journal Tara Expeditions' (2013-16) and its Asian editions, and contributes regularly to The Good Life.
He wrote the preface to Park Kun-woong's graphic novel Fleur (Casterman) and has worked with the Fondation Cartier on contemporary art projects. Author of the essay Le japon d'André Malraux (Picquier) and Kitano par Kitano (Grasset), which he wrote with film-maker Takeshi Kitano, Michel Temman has authored or co-authored the Louis Vuitton City Guides to Tokyo, Kyoto-Nara, Seoul and Shanghai since 2009.
Founded in 1991, Tendance floue (literally, a tendency to be out of focus) is a group of thirteen photographers who have created a collective with the aim of working together to open up new perspectives and diversify the ways that contemporary photography can represent the world. In addition to their personal work, these photographers nurture their collective photographic research by comparing images, assemblages and combinations, their pooled results giving rise to completely new material.
Involved in the press, publishing, exhibitions, screenings, collection prints, and corporate and institutional marketing, this collective is open to everything, embracing all the different media of contemporary photography. Tokyo is brought roto focus by Tendance floue photographer. Olivier Culmann has worked as a photographer rince 1992. Freedom and conditioning are recurrent themes in his photography.
He is the author of several books, including Les Mondes de l'école, or School Worlds (Marval, 2001), with photographer Mat Jacob, and Watching TV (Textuel, 2011). Olivier has exhibited around the world and received several awards, including the SCAM Roger Pic Prise and a World Press prise for a "contemporary topic' : In 2017 he received the Prix Niépce.
