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This weeks blog is about some of the backstories behind the images and the pages. How I choose them and some interesting things I found out. For all other cities where I took the pictures myself there is of course more backstory than with Tokyo where I did not make the photo’s myself. This unique experience ave me the option to discover the images like the viewer would see them for the first time.
As all stories, it starts at page 1. The first images immediately grabbed me and I wanted to set the tone for the story of Tokyo, recreated some 25 years after the fact. Image series starts at the end of a long working day. People leaving for their homes and families. From the top left your eye is guided from the office buildings, via full busses towards a small group of people and a bit older man, jacket over his arm and a bag hanging from his shoulder. Going home presumably.
The reflection of bus stop 33 tells us this is close by. The pharmacy glows softly from within, shelves lined with bottles and boxes, orderly, familiar, human. A young woman with her hair tied in blue ribbons tends to flowers, shimmering in the afternoon sun. Another woman passes by, absorbed in her own rhythm. The warm light gives the entire scene a sense of stillness amid motion, as though time pauses to breathe between one task and the next.
The scene unfolds like a silent film, a vignette of urban solitude. Sun reflecting on bus windows. A woman, done shopping, appears to look for her bus fare, while others drift through the frame like ghosts, a memory. A lone traveler, briefcase in hand, walks toward an unseen destination followed by eyes from within the bus, a quiet rhythm of departures and the beauty of transient moments.
A weathered bus leaving the stop. Silent passengers, traveling. The bus windows reflecting the blurred world beyond. Within its glass and metal confines, glimpses of faces suggest a tapestry of lives converging and diverging, a fleeting tableau of shared space and individual solitude. It’s a quiet meditation on the rhythm of the city and the stories carried within its moving spaces.
Each image in this series tells more than a visual story; it captures the rhythms, pauses, and fleeting narratives of life in Shibuya, allowing viewers to experience the city as if for the first time.