Since 2007, Bureau d'Etudes Japonaises engages in photographic studies of the city of Tokyo.
We strive to make our ongoing archives available online and we produce other suitable material when necessary.
Our areas of interest cover, among others, urbanism, sociology and botany. Our methodology is a cocktail of applied research, empirical poetry and intuitive rationalism.
Bureau d'Etudes Japonaises is committed to maintaining high standards of subjectivity in all studies.

Bruno Quinquet
Founder & Director

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Born 1964 in Chambéry, France. Lives in Tokyo.

Education:
Tokyo Visual Arts College (Japan), Photography department.
Ecole Nationale Louis Lumière (France), sound department.

More about Bureau d'Etudes Japonaises:

Publications, articles:
"Street Photography Now", Thames and Hudson, 2010. By Sophie Howarth and Stephen McLaren. link
"Of Salarymen and Flowers", HotShoe magazine, 2009. Article by Bill Kouwenhoven. PDF
"Obsession of a salaryman otaku", 1000 Words Photography magazine. Article by Nathalie Belayche.
Invisible Photographer Asia online magazine, interview by Sebastian Song.

Solo exhibitions:
2011 "Business x Nature" Hibiya Patio, Tokyo.
2010 "2LDK" Visual Arts Gallery, Tokyo.
2009 "Salaryman Project" Visual Arts Gallery, Tokyo.

Group exhibitions:
2011 "Foreign-Familiar" curated by Wolfgang Bellwinkel for the Goethe Institut Bangkok.
2011 "Right Here, Right Now" Format Festival, Derby, UK. Curated by Louise Clements.
2011 "Dreams" Chobi Mela VI Festival.
2010 "Street Photography Now" Third Floor Gallery, Cardiff, UK.
2010 "Des Photographes, des Japons" Instituts Franco Japonais. Curated by Christine Cibert.
2009 "The Pursuit of Happiness" Noorderlicht Festival, Groningen, The Netherlands
2009 FujiFilm Photo Salon, Tokyo

Awards:
2010 Rencontres d'Arles, France. Photo Folio Review 5th winner.
2010 Center, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Project competition, honorable mention.
2008 Voies Off, Arles, France. Shortlisted.
2008 New York Photo Awards. Nomination.

Other Media:
2003 "Le musée revisité", Musée Antoine Lecuyer, France. Sound installation.