Thursday, March 11, 2010

Thomas Birke takes us towards the lights of Tokyo

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In HaciendoFoco we go on from the adorable intimacy of the Siberian houses to the undeniable modernity of the buildings of Tokyo. Thomas Birke feels a big attraction for the metropolitan areas and especially for this city, one of most populated of the world. The metropolitan area of Tokyo possesses 34,5 million inhabitants. Since it is of supposing it is characterized by an extremely high population density: 14 thousand persons for square kilometer.

For Birke Tokyo is the city that more is alike the future of the urban life. The Japanese capital is provided with more than one thousand of buildings, many of which overcome 100 meters high. From the roofs of the city there is glimpsed a sea of buildings, offices and factories. The Birke target is to show the presence of the individuals who inhabit them. Nevertheless, it does not do it straight but across the lights of his windows or of his vehicles.

To achieve these photos Thomas Birke raised the stairs against fires of innumerable buildings. It was so it obtained a series of panoramic apprehensions, full of light and movement.

(I resided …)

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