Over seven years of immersion in Japan (2013–2019), French artist Chloé Jafé produced steel-edged black and white images — moist and harsh, tender and fierce — revealing an unprecedented view of an opaque country. The trilogy SAKASA (meaning 'contrast') comprises three chapters: I give you my life, documenting the tattooed wives, daughters and mistresses of the Yakuza whom Jafé accessed after a year of learning Japanese and gaining the trust of a clan boss; Okinawa mon amour, a sentimental diary of an island marked by WWII and inhabited by those ostracised from society; and How I met Jiro, an ode to the fallen district of Nishinari in Osaka, where she followed an ex-Yakuza boss now running a yakitori stand. Awarded the Bourse du Talent 2017.