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Brussels-based Xavier Portela is a photographer, filmmaker, and traveler who lives to capture the world through the lens of his camera. In his album Tokyo's Glow, Portela tells a vivid, visual story of his experiences walking through the streets of the megalopolis during a personal trip. Struck by all the "electricity" that surrounded him — the signs, neons, and current of the droves of people — he attempted to reproduce the eclectic atmosphere as accurately as possible, producing a series of photographs possessing a fluorescent pink glow.
Portela explained to grape that the photographs were given their unique color through adjustments of color balance and increase of the colors red, pink, and orange. By doing so, he wanted to depict a city scene that existed somewhere in between reality and manga.
Striving to reproduce the "feeling you get when you arrive in Tokyo for the first time, that chaos that is somehow completely smooth and fluid," Portela says he drew inspiration from Japanese manga and anime, of which he himself is a fan. Tokyo's Glow culminated into an imaginative collection of pictures that look as if they came straight out of a manga.
Be sure to visit Xavier Portela's website, Instagram, and Facebook for even more amazing photography.
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