Sato Shintaro says “These shots were taken in the streets of Tokyo and Osaka at night , and in them I have avoided the more aesthetically pleasing locations such as seaside areas and the well-known “subcenters” in favor of the everyday disorder of the streets.
Take a brightly-lit busy street bustling with people and remove the people: the purpose of the lighting is lost and only the glow remains - providing a glimpse of the streets we know well from a less familiar perspective.”
He also takes pictures of the rooftops in Tokyo at twilight.
Pictures were taken by a large format camera (4×5-inch) at the area of mixture of residential compound with commercial neighborhood in Tokyo.
I take pictures from emergency staircase of office buildings or apartment houses. Photographs are made not from the top of the buildings, but from the halfway height such as on the 14th floor degree from the 10th floor.
I find the places by location hunting in the daytime. I don’t get permission to go up the emergency staircases. I work in twilight. The beautiful time that artificial light and natural light are mixed is very short. That is about only 15 minutes. So, I can take only 3 or 4 shoots a day.
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Beautiful and haunting the same time. Those images look like aliens ’sucked’ up all human life in a heartbeat and left the place empty. Very intriguing.