〒 YUBIN 2021~ongoing

Titled after the symbol (〒) and the name (yubin) of the postal service in Japan, this ongoing work is an attempt to see the city from the standpoint of a postal worker on their delivery round. The project sits at the meeting point of photo typology, snapshot photography and mail art. It is being published in limited editions of 45 copies, with short texts in English, Japanese and French. Each volume covers a different ward of Tokyo, and comes in a box containing: - a booklet of 36 postcards showing postboxes encountered in the ward. The choice of format is a conceptual/poetical invitation to send postboxes to travel through the postal distribution system. The postcards are independently detachable but the book can be kept as-is as well. - a tiny folded triptych of Japan Post related street scenes including postal workers at work in the corresponding ward. - an extra postcard to send back, as an incentive to start a postcard exchange with the publisher. Upon reception, an unpublished 37th postcard is sent, making the work conceptually complete, connected and fun! (see annex “〒 YUBIN round trip”).