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Tokyo Insomnia (World 2018, by François Schaer) - Swiss Press Award

metro de Tokyo
metro de Tokyo
Photo / World
2018

Tokyo Insomnia

François Schaer

Tokyo Insomnia is an essay on solitude in Tokyo. I am constantly swallowed by a flood of lights, people, and unknown sounds. I photograph the solitude of thousands of anonymous people whose codes I don't know, mirroring my own. Lost in translation... In the subway that winds through Tokyo Bay, I see this mysterious woman with a lost gaze; time seems to have stopped.

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Photo / World
2018

François Schaer

Tokyo Insomnia is an essay on solitude in Tokyo. I am constantly swallowed by a flood of lights, people, and unknown sounds. I photograph the solitude of thousands of anonymous people whose codes I don't know, mirroring my own. Lost in translation... In the subway that winds through Tokyo Bay, I see this mysterious woman with a lost gaze; time seems to have stopped.

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