Tom Blachford creates a cinematic dystopia from Japan’s brutalist past
Tom Blachford creates a cinematic dystopia from Japan’s brutalist past
In a new chapter of his series
Nihon Noir, the night-crawling photographer captures the futuristic metropolises of Tokyo and Kyoto to dystopian effect
Neo Kyoto. Building: Kyoto International Conference Center, Kyoto. Architect: Sachio Otani. Year: 1966. All images
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Nihon Noir 2099 by Tom Blachford
Photographers are known to take inventive, sometimes extreme steps for the right shot. But in Tom Blachford’s case, extraordinary measures are something of a calling.
The Melbourne-based photographer has a penchant for the nighttime, creating work that spins mundane urban and suburban architectural environments into something altogether beyond this world.