LOVE HOTEL delete from the injury of a

from the injury of a heart wound to a fully healed state

T’ai Smith and Hanka van der Voet this reader explores some of the project’s core questions: What does it mean to copy in fashion

the photographs agree on the very materiality of the image

which considers how images extract and commodify

LOVE HOTEL delete from the injury of aLOVE HOTEL is a collection of photographs showing Japanese Love Hotels facades. The project was produced in 2023 during a road trip between Tokyo and Shikoku Island. Photographer Franois Prost paints a vernacular portrait of Japan, made up of ordinary roadsides, faded signs and colorful facades, far from the usual clichs.