Urban landscapes are supposed to be in constant flux, yet at times they merge with scenes held in one's memory and appear as something already seen.
Through land readjustment and redevelopment, urban spaces are increasingly standardized. As a result, they come to share familiar configurations and expressions, blurring the boundaries of time and place.
In this series, I attempt to grasp how such a sense of deja vu comes into being. Rather than emphasizing specific locations, I photographed areas on the urban periphery of the Greater Tokyo region—places that feel faintly familiar or seem to lie dormant at the bottom of memory. I try to photograph these landscapes while preserving their ambiguity, asking when, where, and through what processes a place begins to be perceived as a landscape.
Designed by Hirokazu Matsuda.
- Pages: 122 Size: 270 x 425 mm Color Limited edition of 200 copies
