TOKYO is like a candy shop in a minefield.
Chaos and ultimate attention go hand in hand.
There are no hallmarks, there is no centre:
just parts cluttered without a plan.

Even a stone jungle is in a state of becoming;
breaking itself into parts towards a new fabric
that holds no past
because they don’t need it here.

The whole thing looks like a nightmare but feels like a dream.

It is my aim to learn something about a place by observing how a city is organized and used.
Architecture and urban planning (or the lack of it) affects people’s behaviour.
And people create their own living spaces very much on their own.
The type of a society shows itself in the streets.

My job is gazing, wandering and wondering in order to make a few precise pictures of this urban fabric
that hover between an uncanny beauty and an existential drift.

HW 2026


東京の25の奇妙な風景
The title of this book is a curtsy to the “One Hundred Famous Views of Edo” by Hiroshige.
His marvelous Ukiyo-e prints show a totally different place in a different time,
but not so much a different view.