Neo-Ruins: Photographs of Post-Apocalyptic Tokyo

Japanese photographer Hisaharu Motada envisions the radioactive and decomposing cityscapes of post-apocalyptic Tokyo in his “Neo-Ruins” series of photographs. From his website: In his Neo-Ruins series Motoda depicts a post-apocalyptic Tokyo, where familiar landscapes in the central districts of Ginza, Shibuya, and Asakusa are reduced to ruins and the streets eerily devoid of humans. The […]

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Japanese photographer Hisaharu Motada envisions the radioactive and decomposing cityscapes of post-apocalyptic Tokyo in his "Neo-Ruins" series of photographs.

From his website:

In his Neo-Ruins series Motoda depicts a post-apocalyptic Tokyo, where familiar landscapes in the central districts of Ginza, Shibuya, and Asakusa are reduced to ruins and the streets eerily devoid of humans. The weeds that have sprouted from the fissures in the ground seem to be the only living organisms. “In Neo-Ruins I wanted to capture both a sense of the world′s past and of the worldﾕs future,” he explains.

Motoda's view of the future at first seems nihilistic, but the proliferation of plant life in the ruined streets seems to suggest that there are other ways for the plant to survive even after our great cities have fallen.

Well, yes, that's certainly a comforting thought in the face of nuclear obliteration: at least the dandelion will be okay.

Neo-Ruins: Lithographs of post-apocalyptic Tokyo [Pink Tentacle]