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Harajuku Kills Me Photos
Candid street, urban, and omoshiroi mono “interesting thing” snaps from an expat’s daily life in Tokyo, the greatest megacity in the world
A couple of weeks ago, the Yamanote Inner Circle Line, part of my daily commute through Tokyo, stranded me in Harajuku due to a major delay (not as uncommon on Japan Rail’s famously reliable trains as you might think).
I could have stressed about the interruption to my daily journey. Instead, iPhone 16 Pro in hand I took advantage of the moment to snap some street photos in a neighbourhood I don’t often visit.
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I am still learning to write about my photography. Here is my most recent effort…
Harajuku at night is a collision. Of light and shadow, noise and silence, movement and stillness. It hums, pulses, exhales. a city within a city, neon soaking into pavement, into skin.
The images in this gallery capture fractured moments, between exhale and inhale, between the spectacle and the solitary, cinematic atmosphere of the urban sprawl. I am drawn to the juxtaposition of crowded intersections and empty plazas, neon reflections and shadowed alleys.
