TOKYOBLUE - ROMAIN SLOCOMBE

Tokyo Blue - Romain Slocombe

A cult photobook capturing a dark, seductive vision of Tokyo at the intersection of fetish, alienation, and urban desire.

Originally published in the late 1990s, Tokyo Blue is one of Romain Slocombe’s most iconic works. Through a cold, cinematic lens, Slocombe portrays anonymous female figures, bandaged faces, vinyl textures, and reflective surfaces, constructing a world suspended between cyberpunk, eroticism, and dystopian noir. Tokyo appears as both setting and psychological space — distant, impersonal, and charged with tension.

The book is a defining document of post-punk and fetish photography, deeply influential within underground visual culture, fashion imagery, and contemporary art photography. Its atmosphere is unmistakably of its era, yet still feels radical, unsettling, and timeless.

A must-have for collectors of transgressive photography, Japanese-influenced visual culture, and rare cult publications.