Tokyo After Dark

Across Love Hotel Hill, Golden Gai, Ni-chōme, Kabukichō, Akihabara, Shibuya and Shinjuku, Tokyo After Dark follows how intimacy, commerce, labor and performance enter public view. Light makes some bodies legible or theatrical. Darkness gives others a temporary form of privacy or anonymity.

Neon, screens, doorways and crowds divide Tokyo’s night into shifting fields of attention.

The photographs trace how nocturnal spaces bring exposure and privacy, desire and transaction, candidness and performance into contact. Haruki Murakami’s After Dark provides a point of departure for this movement through the city. The sequence builds its own account from observed encounters.

Each image holds a provisional relation between people, places and the conditions that make them visible.

The sequence keeps those relations open, allowing contact to appear as affectionate, transactional, tentative or unresolved.