Video: Tokyo Pandemonium: Photo Project by Michael Wolf
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The Tokyo subway at rush hour is a byword: an unprecedented crush, pandemonium, nerves, aggression, hopelessness. All this is what a German photographer tried to capture in a photo. Michael Wolf in a series of his works Tokyo Compression.
Michael Wolf generally loves to spy on people behind glass. We have already talked about his photo project "The Transparent City", in which he took pictures of the skyscrapers of Chicago and the people working in them. Well, his new series of works is dedicated to another metropolis - Tokyo. Here he climbed not to the very height, but, on the contrary, underground, in the subway.
An incredible crush in the Tokyo subway is a common thing, everyday. Tens of millions of people in this city go underground every day to get to work and in the evening to get home. And the subway there is struggling to cope with this flow.
A vivid illustration of this can be found in the photographs of Michael Wolff included in his photographic project Tokyo Compression. These pictures show ordinary residents of the city, who were lucky to somehow miraculously squeeze into a subway train car. But this does not mean at all that they are comfortable there. Some of these people look sadly at the photographer, someone hides their face, someone shows him obscene gestures, someone does not notice anything and looks away, and some even manage to doze in this position.
However, driving badly is better than standing well. And the inhabitants of Tokyo have long been accustomed to this crush, consider it an integral part of their life and, it seems, do not see any particular discomfort in it. However, Tokyo is one of the most populated cities in the world. So Tokyo people are no stranger to being cramped!
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