In almost all of his work David Favrod works with his own identity for inspiration. “For a Swiss person, I’m Japanese and for a Japanese person, I’m Swiss or rather a gaijin.” The aim of much of us his work is to create his own Japan in Switzerland, so images from Japanese popular and high culture appear in his work in, but with a twist, so that there are ethnically European Sumo wrestlers, the shadow of a Godzilla destroying a city and images of paper art, all in a Swiss setting.
Inspired by:
Japanese photographers, including Kikuji Kawada, Daïdo Moriyama, Shunkichi Kikuchi and Rinko Kawauchi.
INFORMATION
PHOTOGRAPHY
School
ECAL, Lausanne
Graduated
2009
