Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on March 2011

Photo by Vincent Morris

Japan-based American photographer Vincent Morris and Japanese illustrator Carrie Empire have an artistic meeting of minds over their mutual interest in erotic and gothic-themed imagery in the exhibition “Critical Pieces.” Stubbornly dedicated to film photography, San Franciscan Morris calls his style “art iroke” (iroke means, roughly, “erotic”), and his black-and-white works impart a nostalgic Showa flavor to his prints. Empire, a Japanese fashion and magazine illustrator, is obsessed with gothic, Lolita-kei, Akiba-kei and X-rated imagery.

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