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<span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Helvetica'">Since the economical growth and the super-fast evolving society during the 80's, things started to shift. </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;">Until the 70's, sex was considered something strictly practiced within arranged marriages and mainly just for reproduction.. I</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica;">nfluenced by foreign culture, international film, etc. people started to believe in '</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: oblique;">love' </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica;">marriages (instead of arranged) and in sex as '</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: oblique;">pleasure’ </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica;">for men </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: oblique;">and </span><font face="Helvetica" size="3">women. But Emperor Meji already saw Western influences and loss of traditional lifestyle in 1980 & these were his guidelines: </font></p>
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"Japanese Whispers"
Que se passe-t-il derrière le voile des love hotels japonais ? La photographe Zaza Bertrand met au jour la sensualité et l’étrangeté.
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There are 5 levels of bowing politeness depending on the degree that the back, neck and even knees are bent.</p>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;">Japan is going through a period of big changes on a sexual level. Both men and women choose more frequently to have single, childless lives. Japan has transformed from being a country where almost everybody got married to one where 20% of the population never does. </span></p>
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In the meantime I was invited at RECYCLART ART CENTER in Brussels, where I talked about my older projects and future plans. </p>
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©zaza bertrand,</p>
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from the series <em><a href="http://zazabertrand.com/dreamland/" target="_blank">Dreamland</a></em></p>
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I was very nervous especially because it was the first time to show<em> 'Japanese Whipsers' </em>in public.</p>
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Luckily, I heard it didn't go bad at all. Thanks so much to the ones showing up!!!</p>
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The best thing was meeting German photographer Andreas Trogisch & his lovely wife Heike who made all his pretty books!</p>
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Check out his website: <a href="http://andreastrogisch.de" target="_blank">Andreas Trogisch</a></p>
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EXTRA FORT is an initiative by RECYCLART where two photographers are invited to present their work.</p>
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The next edition is with Maria Kapajeva & Nick Hannes, who was my mentor in KASK, Gent! </p>
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Have a look at the program <a href="http://www.recyclart.be/fr/agenda/extra-fort-nick-hannes-maria-kapajeva" target="_blank">here.</a></p>
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