Salaryman by Pawel Jaszczuk
£10.00
Salaryman is a Japanese term suggesting the white-collar worker. It also carries associations of long working hours, low prestige in the corporate hierarchy, wage slavery, and karōshi (death by overwork!).
After working overtime six days a week, one would assume the only relief would be the age-old tradition of “existential purging”-and thus, these guys drink till they drop.
Pawel Jaszczuk has spent months, at ungodly hours seeking these hopeless leftovers of a night on a binge.
The zine is covered by intricate Chiyogami (Japanese hand screen printed paper), but once past this apparent contrasting cover up of appearances, one finds a wasteland of sprawled out workers.
Call it schadenfreude or just plain immature, but one smirks when they notice a “salaryman” has wet himself....
32 Pages
13.5 X 20cm
Screen printed Chiyogami cover with satin innards (please note not all covers are the same)
Limited edition of 150
