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ROLLS-ROYCE CURATES PHOTOGRAPHY SERIES ‘BLACK BADGE: TOKYO AFTER HOURS’
08.07.2019 Press Release
‘Black Badge: Tokyo After Hours’ presents all three Black Badge models – Dawn, Wraith and Ghost Black Badge – through the lens of three international photographers.
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- Japanese, British and Singaporean photographers capture Rolls-Royce Black Badge motor cars against the brooding night-time cityscape of Tokyo in a new series of groundbreaking images
- ‘Black Badge: Tokyo After Hours’ photography exhibition to be held at Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Tokyo from 8-13 July alongside the models featured
Tokyo is a city of beguiling juxtapositions. With contrasts at
every turn and an undercurrent of adventure, it is a city as playful
as it is formal, never failing to surprise and delight. As such, Tokyo
forms the perfect palette for the dark interpretation of Rolls-Royce
that is Black Badge, both presenting bold, ultra-modern façades and
fast-living, adventurous characters that belie their cultured,
historical depths.
‘Black Badge: Tokyo After Hours’ presents all three Black Badge
models – Dawn, Wraith and Ghost Black Badge – through the lens of
three international photographers. Each brings a different take to a
common storyline of playing hard in the metropolis after dark before
retiring to the calm solitude of the city limits. The series of 18
photographs, taken between 2017 and 2019, are brought together here
for the first time.
Japanese photographer Yoshifumi Ogawa looks at his home city
with fresh eyes, starting with Wraith Black Badge amongst the bustling
glitz of Ginza before snaking through the city on the raised highways
and out across Rainbow Bridge with both Wraith Black Badge and Ghost
Black Badge, the skyscrapers forming an urban forest in the shadow of
which lie ancient palace moats and quiet temple grounds.
Bringing the first of two outsiders’ gazes to the equation is
British photographer Mark Riccioni, fresh from the ‘Phantom Off-duty’
photography series in London. In Tokyo order and routine quickly give
way to a maze of complex backstreets with a life of their own. Mark
starts his Dawn Black Badge expedition in Akihabara, the hive of tech
and gaming, where the brazen neon signs dazzle in the car’s Magma Red
paint. From here he ventures out to the night-time peace of the
sleeping industrial giants that are the reclaimed islands of Tokyo
Bay, for an open-top view of an open-air theatre of lights. As the sun
comes up, he skulks back to the residential streets of hip and
affluent Nakameguro, home to the cutting edge of streetwear.
The third perspective comes from photographer Darren Chan.
Darren, brought up surrounded by the city lights of Singapore, is
drawn first to the vivid glow of Shinjuku where Wraith Black Badge
stands like a black stallion in a field of electric flowers. After a
midnight bowl of ramen he promptly leaves the city for the highways
that skirt Tokyo Bay, Wraith’s precise, effortless dynamics providing
the perfect foil to clear one’s head after the intensity of the
working day. In doing so he takes a modern-day automotive pilgrimage
to the legendary Daikoku Futo – calm in the early hours – before a
final morning stop at the timeless outer markets of Tsukiji, now in
Ghost Black Badge, whose devilish orange coachline gives away its
audacious streak.
Paul Harris, Regional Director, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Asia
Pacific, said, “Just as Black Badge aesthetics are at home in the city
of Tokyo, these amazing Rolls-Royces have very much struck a chord
with our Japanese clients – just over 40% of Ghost, Wraith and Dawn
models we deliver in Japan are in the guise of their Black Badge alter
egos. The visual diversity of the Tokyo cityscape speaks of the
diverse enterprises that have brought success to Rolls-Royce’s Tokyo
clientele – tech and trade on one hand, creative industries and
traditional arts on the other. I thank and congratulate the
photographers on capturing the essence of Black Badge in Tokyo so well.”
The images will be on display at Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Tokyo,
2-7-17 Shiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo from Monday 8th to Saturday 13th July,
accompanied by the full range of Black Badge models featured in the photographs.
CO2 EMISSIONS & CONSUMPTION.
- Rolls-Royce Dawn Black Badge: CO2 emission: 382-380 g/km; Fuel consumption: 16.7-16.8 mpg / 16.9-16.8 l/100km (#)
- Rolls-Royce Ghost Black Badge: CO2 emission: 378-374 g/km; Fuel consumption: 16.9-17.0 mpg / 16.7-16.6 l/100km (#)
- Rolls-Royce Wraith Black Badge: CO2 emission: 370-365 g/km; Fuel consumption: 17.2-17.4 mpg / 16.4-16.2 l/100km (#)
- #WLTP (combined)
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