Thursday, January 29, 2026 at 6:30 pm
Swiss Museum of the Camera

Opening reception, panel discussion and aperitif

The photographer and filmmaker from French-speaking Switzerland, Pascal Greco, will present his new book TOKYO FLASH, bringing together photographs taken in Tokyo during the summer of 2025.

This project was born from a desire to capture the city in a different way: not to describe it, but to convey its vibration. To achieve this, Pascal Greco chose to use a compact, fully automatic camera. He decides to trigger the flash before the eye even has time to settle. Without aiming, in a quick, almost accidental gesture, the image tears away a piece of the night, a fragment of color. Nothing is framed; everything is seized.

The films were developed using cross-processing, producing unpredictable, high-contrast tones and offering an altered vision of the city in which chemistry plays its part. The image explains nothing; it wavers.

Drawing on nearly twenty years of regular stays in Tokyo for various photographic and film projects, Pascal Greco now manages to distance himself from this megacity: the images are born in the very moment they escape him. A drift toward an aesthetic of chance, made possible by a deliberate absence of framing, unpredictable chemistry, and the flash.

Book co-published by the Swiss Museum of the Camera, Infolio, and Chambre Noire.

The temporary exhibition Flash! A brief history of photography can be seen until February 22, 2026.

Opening Reception and Panel Discussion – 6:30 pm
Flashing in 35 mm – spontaneity and cross-processing

With Stéphane Gobbo, Head of the Culture section at the daily newspaper Le Temps,
and Pascal Greco

Followed by an aperitif

Open to all / no reservation required / free admission