All professions are important, all professions are needed: a French artist has created an amazing photo project about Japanese workers
Regardless of their occupation, the Japanese are always proud of their work. This high feeling even got a special name — hatarakimono. French artist Frank Le Petit, who uses the pseudonym K-Narf, started working on the project "Hatarakimono" in 2016. For a year and two months, the master photographed employees of various institutions. 102 people became the heroes of the project. In the photos, they are dressed in the uniform they work in every day.
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The artist is sure that it is very important to capture these hardworking Japanese before their duties are replaced by modern technologies. K-Narf believes that over time these pictures will become unique historical photographic documents. He plans to keep them in the archive until 2042 and show them at exhibitions in various museums around the world.
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