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Tokyo 2014 by Sohei Nishino [2013-2014]: Fragments of a Whole

ArtGuest UserJuly 05, 2021japanese, subculture, original, culture, photographer, photography, photo series, japanphotos

Japanese photographer @sohei_nishino creates artworks that are maps of a different kind.

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When he walks through cities, Nishino takes pictures of the elements he discovers from all kinds of perspectives and angles. Later he puts together all the fragments he collected on a map.

“What results is not at all a map to convey precise information, but the record of how I, as a human being, have walked through their streets and how I looked at those streets.”

Through the way he creates his artworks, he tries to express more than the simple “skin” of the city. He captures the experiences and activities that make up life in these vibrant cities. What is an essential part of his “maps” is the contestant movement that comes from the different perspectives the photo fragments are taken in.

The artwork “Tokyo 2014” is the second map he created of Tokyo after his artwork “Tokyo 2004.” Here Nishino says he wanted to show the “transformation in my personal way of responding to cities and that of my way of communicating them, not to mention the transformations of the cities as structures.”