What's Not to like? - Masato Seto - Binran, Festival Voies Off, Arles

To say why we like it would take too long.  So here it is.  In bullet points.

• Large-format colour portraits of Taiwan's nocturnal "binran" (betel nut) sellers housed within their neon-lit glass boxes
• Worldly yet vulnerable-looking women of different ages, staring back from their perches, a momentary interruption to the night's business
• Portraits formed in unfailing detail, from the childish dolls lined up on a table and tacky posters to the cheap clothes and shoes that do not fit
• Voyeuristic, but who is looking at whom?  What is really on sale?

Galeries Voies Off

3-10 July 2010

26 ter Rue Raspail, Arles, France