Manu is a film photographer from Valparaiso, Chile, and is currently based in Osaka, Japan, since 2016.
His interest for photography flourished at an early age and pushed him to look for inspiration to create something unique, with authentic and honest value.
Through the years, digital photography became a source of frustration for Manu; modern cameras and editing software left him without answers and creative burnout. He would recover inspiration later after moving to Japan.
After living for some years in Osaka, Manu visited his relatives in Chile and found his father's old 35mm Film SLR Camera whilst sneaking into family memories. He immediately realized his photographic search connects with the past rather than the future and new technologies.
With a Praktica MTL50 in his bag, he returned to Japan and embarked on the thrilling adventure of analog photography, retro cameras, and the unique textures and colors given by the different photographic film stocks.
Manu's photography work has a persistent fixation with the taboos of Japanese society, retro aesthetics, underground culture, and the night entertainment business, divulging the reality of modern Japan from an unusual perspective on each frame.
Whether it is by foot or bike, Manu immerses his film cameras into the deep alleys of Osaka, the unknown side of Japan, where his photographic style thrives.
