Join photographer Bruno Quinquet for a field walk through Kyojima, the neighborhood surrounding nagaya paper lab.

Quinquet’s long-running photographic project YUBIN began as an attempt to look at the city through the perspective of postal delivery workers while walking through Tokyo’s 23 wards.

Postal delivery workers move through the same neighborhoods day after day, entering places that most of us rarely pay much attention to. They leave the main streets, turn into narrow alleys, approach the entrances of homes and shops, and search for each individual mailbox.

From this perspective, a landscape emerges that cannot be seen simply by passing through the city.

A mailbox attached to the wall of an old house. A brand-new mailbox that seems strangely out of place on an aging building. A nameplate whose lettering has almost disappeared. An entrance set slightly back from an alley. A small space between the street and a private home.

Mailboxes often exist precisely at the boundary between public and private space.

In YUBIN, Quinquet observes Tokyo through these mailboxes, buildings, and the many details that appear around them.

For this field walk, rather than simply viewing the exhibition, we will head out into the neighborhood together with Quinquet himself.

Walking through the alleys and residential streets around nagaya paper lab in Kyojima, we will follow the way he looks at the city: what catches his attention, where he stops, and what makes him look twice.

“Why does this particular mailbox attract his attention?”
“How does he look at the relationship between a building and the street?”
“What makes one place become a photograph while another does not?”

We will consider these questions together while standing in front of the actual places and scenes.

Kyojima is a neighborhood where old wooden houses and nagaya row houses coexist with newer homes, factories, and small shops from different periods. Narrow alleys run between them, and traces of everyday life remain visible throughout the area.

Even places just around the corner from nagaya—places we might normally pass without a second thought—may begin to appear differently when viewed through the perspective of a postal delivery worker.

This is not a workshop for learning a particular photographic technique.

It is an approximately one-hour field walk in which we share the perspective of a photographer and experiment with the act of looking at the city itself.

You are welcome to join whether or not you take photographs.

Together with the exhibition YUBIN / A Record of Postal Delivery in Tokyo, we invite you to experience the Tokyo that Quinquet has been observing through photography—this time, out in the streets themselves.

The familiar city may begin to look a little different.

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Walking with Bruno Quinquet
“Seeing the City Through a Postal Worker’s Eyes — YUBIN FIELD WALK”

Date & Time｜October 3, 2026 (Sat), 14:00–15:00
Meeting Point｜nagaya paper lab
3-13-6 Kyojima, Sumida-ku, Tokyo 131-0046

Participation Fee｜¥1,500
※ Please order one drink separately at the venue.

Registration｜
Please register by paying the participation fee through the link below, or sign up in person at nagaya paper lab.

Register here

Related Exhibition｜
Bruno Quinquet Exhibition “YUBIN / A Record of Postal Delivery in Tokyo”
September 19 (Sat) – October 12 (Mon, National Holiday), 2026
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