Victor Borst Street Photography

The streets are my playground
I was born in 1978 in the city of The Hague. This city is were I still live and the place that I call home. I also have second place that I call “home” and that is the city of Tokyo. During my first visit to Tokyo in 2009, I instantly fell in love with this city. On this trip I took my first steps into street photography. After this trip I started to fully devote myself to street photography.

This journey into street photography took me to a lot of different cities all over the world, but Japan and Tokyo is a constant factor within my work and 75% of my work is therefore Japanese. “But why Tokyo?” I always get asked. To be honest I really don’t have a straight answer to that question. I love the vibe of this city, always in a rush, on every corner a new little story to discover and of course the people of Tokyo. I hope my photography can capture a bit of this vibe and rush.

Throughout the years the people of Tokyo got more important within my work. I started doing little side projects so I could study the behaviour of people. One of those projects is Shimbashi Blues, all photographs are made at the same spot over a period of three trips. I captured the salarymen and women of Tokyo within a bottleneck at the gates of Shimbashi Station. Another ongoing project is Tokyo Seclusion. Within this project I capture the different ways the people of Tokyo try to escape from the harsh inner city life.  This project will be my first main solo exhibition during CameraJapan 2018. 

Exhibitions:

  • 13 July 2018 – 19 Juli 2019: Exhibition of four works at Headcase, Noordeinde 124H The Hague www.headcase-barbers.nl
  • 26 September 2018 – 30 September 2018: First solo exhibition “Tokyo Seclusion” – CameraJapan at LantarenVenster, Rotterdam www.camerajapan.nl
  • 7 September 2019: First international exhibition in Tokyo. The Rozou Project together with Tadashi Onishi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugtgRqYaWVg 
  • 9 June 2022 – 12 Jun 2022: EinZweiBlicke V Exhibition in Bad Laasphe, Germany
  • 3 June 2023: The Rozou Project in Tokyo together with Panu Kannisto (Finland) and Evgeny Bondarenko (Ukraine)
  • 5 May 2024: The Rozou Project in Kyiv Ukraine organized by Evgeny Bondarenko

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4 Comments
Sean
25 September 2019 at 11:22
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Is this taken whit Ricoh gr ?


    Victor Borst
    25 September 2019 at 11:27
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    Hi Sean. The first and last photographs were taken with a Canon 5d Mark II. The second one with a Fuji Xpro2. The Fuji is the one that I use nowadays for my street work.

Cindy
13 March 2023 at 17:54
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Hi Victor
Are you the Victor we met this morning at the l’orangerie museum? We are the four Canadians you (hopefully it was you) chatted with in line. We would love to see more of your photos.


    Victor Borst
    17 March 2023 at 16:40
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    Hi Cindy,

    Yes you have found the correct Victor 🙂 Hope you enjoyed your stay in Europe.

    In the next couple of days more Paris photo’s will be added.

    Kind regards,
    Victor

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