Tokyo
Tokyo is currently going through the 22nd Century as well as the 16th. Ultra-high-tech and ultra-chic, Tokyo balances tradition and conservative attitudes with superficially and social interactions with some seriously unusual cultural, sexual and societal behaviors.
As it recreates itself on a daily hidden basis, the city of Tokyo is a jumble of wood and steel convulsing with energy. The whole city is crisscrossed by canals and roadways. Trains connect like strands of a crazy web: the various districts that make up the capital of Japan. Between this networks of transit ways lie business and residential structures of every type imaginable.
Over 12 million people live in Tokyo. Every morning the trains are crammed with salary men going to the office where most of them will spend the majority of their adult lives religiously devoting to the better good of their company and at night obligatory drinks with colleagues lead to them passing out on the train home. For those who don’t make it home, the neon burns until morning and the karaoke bars, pachinko arcades or manga cafes provide shelter for some and even a home for others.
Tokyo can be an odd place. No other country has experienced such a confluence of tradition, technology, and circumstance. Feudal samurai ideals clash with cutting-edge computers; aged survivors of the only country which endured the wrath of the atomic bomb mix with teenagers in Pokemon outfits. Beneath the neon lights, the streets crawl with anime characters, women in kimonos, salary men, rock ‘n rollers, Playmobils, and plenty more further. You look around and may bump into Doraemon, the robot-cat from space, or if you are lucky, Hangry and Angry – two “gurokawa” (grotesque-cute) characters from the H44 Nebula Star who came to save the world from global warming…
This is a series of shots I took in April 2014.
I walked. I looked. Sometimes I got lost.
Tokyo
Tokyo is currently going through the 22nd Century as well as the 16th. Ultra-high-tech and ultra-chic, Tokyo balances tradition and conservative attitudes with superficially and social interactions with some seriously unusual cultural, sexual and societal behaviors.
As it recreates itself on a daily hidden basis, the city of Tokyo is a jumble of wood and steel convulsing with energy. The whole city is crisscrossed by canals and roadways. Trains connect like strands of a crazy web: the various districts that make up the capital of Japan. Between this networks of transit ways lie business and residential structures of every type imaginable.
Over 12 million people live in Tokyo. Every morning the trains are crammed with salary men going to the office where most of them will spend the majority of their adult lives religiously devoting to the better good of their company and at night obligatory drinks with colleagues lead to them passing out on the train home. For those who don’t make it home, the neon burns until morning and the karaoke bars, pachinko arcades or manga cafes provide shelter for some and even a home for others.
Tokyo can be an odd place. No other country has experienced such a confluence of tradition, technology, and circumstance. Feudal samurai ideals clash with cutting-edge computers; aged survivors of the only country which endured the wrath of the atomic bomb mix with teenagers in Pokemon outfits. Beneath the neon lights, the streets crawl with anime characters, women in kimonos, salary men, rock ‘n rollers, Playmobils, and plenty more further. You look around and may bump into Doraemon, the robot-cat from space, or if you are lucky, Hangry and Angry – two “gurokawa” (grotesque-cute) characters from the H44 Nebula Star who came to save the world from global warming…
This is a series of shots I took in April 2014.
I walked. I looked. Sometimes I got lost.
