In Holy Night, Issei Suda captures Tokyo’s pre-Christmas shopping frenzy – and the peculiar “awkwardness” of the festive period
. Here we have Suda on top, street-shooting form, offering a rich banquet of happenstance: askew angles, uncentred compositions, salarymen with flash-lit scowls on their faces, for they’ve left gift-giving until the last minute.
“I wonder how many Japanese people actually think of Jesus Christ on Christmas,” ponders Suda in the brilliantly acerbic afterword. “We just observe Christmas Eve by buying cake and bringing it home to eat; lovers spend it together as the most romantic night of the year. These kinds of customs have become the norm.
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