Jean-Vincent Simonet's Psychedelic Tokyo and Osaka in "In Bloom"

French photographer Jean-Vincent Simonet, born in 1991, uses an experimental visual language that merges photography, painterly processes, and physical and digital image manipulation. His project "In Bloom" takes its title from the famous Nirvana song, which he sang during a karaoke evening. The series was made over three trips to Japan and documents the nightlife of Tokyo and Osaka as a confused, psychedelic travel diary. Shot with analog cameras, the images were later altered through a distinctive printing process. Simonet inkjet-prints his photographs onto sheets of plastic, a support that prevents the ink from drying completely, allowing him to work the surface with water and other chemical agents. This produces a dripping and overlapping effect that turns the photographed scenes into images with an almost painterly appearance. Simonet graduated from ECAL (École cantonale d'art de Lausanne) in 2014 and lives and works between Paris and Zurich.