Completed in 2022 in Japan. Images by Rumi Ando. A park with abundant greenery stretches on a hill facing south overlooking the city. The house for a family of four stands on a triangular site.
Tokyo-based photographer and retoucher Rumi Ando creates unsettling urban landscape photography of Tokyo. Seemingly nostalgic yet out-of-place, Ando has retouched each of her photographs, painstakingly removing all evidence of human life except for the buildings they’ve built. All windows, A/C units
It takes a second to understand why the images in Rumi Ando’s “Tokyo Nude” are so serene and yet disquieting.
Tokyo-based artist and photographer Rumi Ando creates images that straddle melancholy and optimism, mundanity and surrealism. Back in 2010, for instance, her
Dream Islands series abstracted the city’s waste-disposal facilities into simple compositions, rendering them beautiful and downright ethereal. In 2016, Ando widened her lens to the urban skyline, capturing an unsettling vision of the city in a series called
Tokyo Nude, which became a book last year.
Rumi Ando is a Tokyo-based artist whose main medium is photography.
At first glance, the photographs in