Tokyo, Japan

Naoki Honjo Japanese

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At first glance, this bird's-eye view of Tokyo at night looks like an image of an obsessively detailed scale model. In fact, it is a photograph of the real world made by tilting and rotating the camera's lens in relation to the picture plane to achieve a very shallow depth of field with selective areas of focus. Honjo is one of a number of contemporary photographers using the "tilt-shift" technique to create disorienting images that seem to straddle reality and the make-believe world of toys. His photographs of Tokyo offer a new view of this postmodern metropolis, accentuating the fantastic artifice of the man-made environment.

Tokyo, Japan, Naoki Honjo (Japanese, born 1978), Chromogenic print

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