No. 02934
Keiyo Street - 京葉ストリート "The Japan Project"
Modern cities provide shelter to billions of people throughout the world. Humans created them and attempt to optimize them to meet human needs. Cities run like clockwork that reflects the biorhythm of it's inhabitants. Built by and for humans, cities serve as one of the most basic and important structures of modern civilization. They provide an environment focused on coexistence of it's elements.
Learning to adapt personal needs seamlessly into their group's needs, residents must subordinate some of their own personal desires, while still pursuing both individual desires and demands The degree of subordination depends on the region or culture we observe. While personal freedom is variably surrendered, new possibilities and opportunities will arise. Life in cities is thus a balance between subordination and new found freedoms.
Tokyo is a brilliant example of modern urban structure. This body of photographic work, generated over a two year period in the capital, contains visual examples of the urban experience. Residents are shown in ordinary, even banal situations, as individuals with their own thoughts..
A fine line is observed between personal freedom and adapting to the needs of all. Even though urban rhythm seems so perfectly harmonious, residents trade synchronization to this rhythm for maintained individuality. If we look closely we recognize individuality in each within the all. A strong and significant moment. If the photography is successful the individuals are representative of the entire population and that balance.
No. 04712
No. 03122
No. 03123
No. 02920
No. 04702
No. 02927
No. 04715
No. 02932
No. 02919
No. 02910
No. 03109
No. 03102
No. 02921
No. 03119
No. 03103
No. 03105
No. 03112
No. 03106
No. 03117
No. 03120
No. 03113
No. 03107
No. 03124
No. 03104
No. 04716
No. 04721
