# 27 Laurence Bouchard on Monochrome Street Photography and Tokyo

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Published: 2025-12-22T08:07:22+00:00
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Laurence Bouchard is a street and urban photographer based in Tokyo, best known for his high-contrast black-and-white images that emphasise geometry, shadow, and silhouette. His work is characterised by strong structural compositions, often reducing complex city scenes into minimalist arrangements of lines, shapes, and negative space. Rather than focusing on overt narrative moments, Laurence’s photographs explore visual order, balance, and rhythm within the urban environment. Overall, Laurence Bouchard’s photography is less about documenting events and more about seeing the city as a system of shapes, light, and movement. His images invite viewers to pause, slow down, and notice the quiet moments of order that exist within one of the world’s busiest urban environments. In this episode Laurence explores his long-term photographic relationship with Tokyo—a city he has called home for over 16 years. Known for his striking monochrome images, Laurence’s work focuses on geometry, shadows, silhouettes, and minimalism, seeking moments of calm and structure within one of the world’s most visually chaotic cities. Laurence also shares practical insights into his street photography techniques, from using elevated poles to gain unusual perspectives to the psychological side of working in public spaces—reading body language, anticipating movement, and knowing when to wait. Photography, he explains, can feel like both an adrenaline-driven pursuit and a meditative practice, often influenced by music that mirrors the atmosphere of the streets he’s photographing. The episode also explores the Tokyo street photography community, including the Tokyo Streets collective, which supports photographers through exhibitions, publishing, and collaborative projects. Laurence reflects on how rare n…

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