{"id":11040,"date":"2022-05-23T21:33:57","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T21:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nftandcrypto-news.com\/art\/nft-project-combines-photos-and-poetry-to-capture-japan-during-lockdown\/"},"modified":"2022-05-23T21:34:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T21:34:00","slug":"nft-project-combines-photos-and-poetry-to-capture-japan-during-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nftandcrypto-news.com\/art\/nft-project-combines-photos-and-poetry-to-capture-japan-during-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"NFT Project Combines Photos and Poetry to Capture Japan During Lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"
Although the NFT community has primarily built its reputation on projects featuring visual art, it welcomes creatives of other disciplines freely with open arms. For instance, musicians also have ample opportunities within the space through NFT music marketplaces such as Sound.xyz.<\/p>\n
But what of creatives in literary disciplines? They too have reaped the benefits of NFTs, as seen in cases such as crypto-journalist Laura Shin\u2019s NFT book club. Some entities such as Untitled Frontier have even sold generative art as companion pieces to short stories.<\/p>\n
Surprisingly though, one field of literature that remains relatively unexplored in the NFT space is poetry. That is, until the launch of the Visceral NFT collection. With the help of partners Rarible and photography-centric NFT marketplace Pinhole, Canadian-born photographer Sacha Dean B\u00efyan was able to successfully release the collection\u2019s first volume earlier this month.<\/p>\n
This collection marks B\u00efyan\u2019s debut into the NFT space, following a long career traveling across the world capturing images that put the human spirit at center stage. Named after the photographer\u2019s \u201cvisceral connection\u201d with Japanese culture, the collection\u2019s first drop contains five black-and-white photographs of night-time scenes throughout Kyoto, Japan. However, these vignettes carried none of the dynamism and energy typically associated with urban Japanese nightlife due to the ongoing pandemic.<\/p>\n
In this photo series, B\u00efyan showed a clear and intentional attempt to capture the uncharacteristic stillness found in Kyoto after dark when COVID lockdowns were in full effect. In the collection\u2019s press release, B\u00efyan said that this unique situation allowed him to see \u201cthe ghosts of Japan\u2019s past\u201d rendered in stunning Kurosawa-esque chiaroscuro. Further explaining his reasoning for draping his subjects in darkness for the collection, B\u00efyan shared that \u201cJapanese culture dwells in the shadows. [\u2026] there\u2019s always a conscious appreciation of subtlety.\u201d<\/p>\n