Faint Communion or: How I Learned to See the Ambivalence in Our Time about Being Truly Open Minded

There are higher contrasts between light and darkness in a city, as the relationship between people and the society is more collective and thicker in a denser aggregate of people. In the past, the contrasts in a city were the contrasts of the lives of the people, who existed equally in the city. In our time, the contrasts in cities seem to be the contrasts between acceptance and domination, alienation or exclusion by the society; it reflects the relationship between an individual and the city that had been transformed into a system to control people. In this series, by composing an omnibus style of social portraits in contemporary Tokyo at night, when the social control is loosened, I expected them to throw some of the contrasts of our time emerged from the individuals solely huddled in the darkness.