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Giada Ripa’s ambitious project combines archive photography from the 1860s, a modern dominatrix – and the story of a relative who became a muse to 19th-century artists and intellectualsMichiru Okajima, Yuki Kimura, Lolita Fashion. Photograph: Giada RipaThu 22 Oct 2026 07.00 BSTRyo Nagata Yamato Transport Co Ltd, employeeThe Yokohama Project by Italian photographer Giada Ripa is a beautifully crafted body of work that bridges generations, cultures and media to explore the profound transformation of Japanese society and landscape over a century and a half through the uncovering of a photographic archive miles from its origin. The Yokohama Project by Giada Ripa is available from GOSTFelice Beato, Out for a Walk, 1868While rummaging through boxes in her family home in Italy, Ripa found an album of 53 hand-coloured photographs by the first visual narrator of Japan, Felice Beato, capturing 1860s Japanese local society. A few months later, she found an unpublished manuscript by her old relative and muse to many intellectuals, Mathilde Ruinart, who lived in Japan at the same time and befriended Beato.
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