Back to the light - Weekly Gap

“How and why did you make the decision, in this new book, to address Japanese culture?” Benjamin Lacombe —I am really a fan of Japanese culture. I was a French boy from the eighties who grew up with the boom of manga. Also, well, French culture is inspired in Japan, generally, since the nineteenth century. Impressionism, for example, is directly linked to the prints in French visual culture and was born from that cultural basin. So, Japan is imb…