Slocombe Romain : photographer

Born in 1953 in Paris, Romain Slocombe studied at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts (Paris), where he met the future members of the graphic group BAZOOKA. From 1977, frequent travels to Japan made this country his main source of inspiration. Slocombe created « Medical Art » in 1983 with his book published by editions Temps Futurs. He switched to photography in 1992, and exhibited his portraits of Japanese girls in bandages and casts in many galleries, in France and abroad (New York, London, Stockholm, Tokyo, Sendai, Bologna, etc).
His main exhibitions in Japan took place at THE DEEP gallery (Tokyo) and ICHINENKAN gallery (Sendai).
From 1995, he filmed several videos in Japan : UN MONDE FLOTTANT (60 mn), featuring Nobuyoshi Araki and Masaaki Toyoura, TOKYO LOVE (90 mn), LA FEMME DE PLATRE (14 mn), and WEEK-END IN TOKYO (21 mn), which received awards in many film festivals, and was shown on French and British television. From 2000, Slocombe wrote several novels, most of them published by éditions Gallimard. He also translated from English to French the History of Japanese Cinema by Donald Richie (éditions du Rocher, 2005). Romain Slocombe staged several performances of Medical Art, in Tokyo, New York, and recently in Lyon with Buto dancer and actress Yoko Higashi.