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.

Official release of the book TOKYO FLASH in Switzerland on March 10, but available exclusively at the Swiss Museum of Photography from January 29, in conjunction with the temporary exhibition Flash! A Brief History of Photography with a Spark, open until February 22, 2026.

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