TOKYO WORKING CLASS

Skills: home, verticale, Stories

Tokyo street photography – 2019

In my mind, the city of Tokyo somehow represents the apex of human civilization. Past, present, and future coexist in a space-time bubble that is the perfect representation of the aspirations, achievements, and paradoxes of our species. The vastness of the city and the grandeur of the infrastructure are in stark contrast to the human dimension, however, only thanks to the ingenuity and tireless activity of human beings has all this been possible. Like the sap flowing in plants, men feed this chaotic and pulsating organism of concrete and steel, establishing an almost symbiotic relationship with it. A crowded organism, increasingly automated and digitized, in which human labor seems to have a role now superfluous, yet somehow still necessary(?). With this series, I wanted to pry into the hidden corners of the city, in search of the protagonists of Japan’s proverbial industriousness, Tokyo’s working class.

 

 

Tokyo streets, Japanese worker, traffic cone, Daikanyama, Tokyo street photography

 

 

Tokyo streets, Japanese worker, Chef, Izakaya, restaurant, Shimo-Kitazawa, Tokyo street photography

 

 

Tokyo streets, Tokyo street photography

 

 

Tokyo streets, Japanese worker, crane, skycraper, Shinjuku, Tokyo street photography

 

 

Tokyo streets, Japanese worker, electrical wires, Tokyo street photography

 

 

Tokyo streets, cactus, Japanese worker, Tokyo street photography

 

 

Tokyo view, skycreapers, Shinjuku, Tokyo street photography

 

 

Tokyo streets, Japanese worker, Tokyo nightlights, bus, Shinjuku, Tokyo street photography

 

 

Tokyo night view, Tokyo nightlights, skycrapers, Tokyo skyline, Shinjuku, Tokyo street photography

 

 

Japanese workers, Tokyo streets, traffic cone, Harajuku, Tokyo street photography

 

 

Japanese worker during cigarette pause, Tokyo streets, Tokyo street photography

 

 

Tokyo streets, phone booth, Japanese taxi driver, Tokyo street photography

Tokyo streets, underground parking, Tokyo street photography Meiji Jingu shrine, Tokyo, Japanese worker, Harajuku, Tokyo street photography

 

 

Tokyo big malls, Akihabara, Tokyo nightlights, Japanese worker, Tokyo street photography

 

 

Japanese worker, Tokyo streets, Fukagawa, Tokyo street photography

 

 

Japanese worker, Tokyo streets, Aoyama, Tokyo street photography

 

 

Tokyo streets, electrical wires, Japanese worker, Daikanyama, Tokyo street photography

 

 

Japanese workers, Tokyo streets, Aoyama, Tokyo street photography

 

 

Tokyo streets, plastic boxes, Japanese worker, Shinjuku, Tokyo street photography Tokyo streets, tokyo nightlights, truck, Tokyo street photography Tokyo streets, traffic cone, Japanese worker, Tokyo street photography

 

 

concrete and wires, Tokyo streets, Tokyo street photography

 

 

Japanese workers, construction site in Tokyo, Tokyo streets, Tokyo street photography

 

 

Tokyo streets, traffic cone, Tokyo street photography

 

 

Tokyo streets, Japanese worker, Tokyo railways, Shinjuku, Tokyo street photography