TOKYO RIVERS
Tokyo’s rivers have been reshaped—channelled, lined, and built into the architecture of the city. Though reverence for nature runs deep in Japan’s cultural identity, these waterways reflect another truth: the transformation of a natural system into urban infrastructure.
This series records that condition—neither new nor sudden, but so complete it can almost go unnoticed.
As someone photographing a place not my own, I came without a plan to interpret, only to look. The rivers became a way to navigate the city, and perhaps my distance from it. I followed their paths, one bridge at a time, observing what remains when nature is formalized—when water, once wild, is asked to behave.
There’s no nostalgia in these photographs. Only repetition, structure, and the quiet persistence of flow.
Tokyo’s rivers have been reshaped—channelled, lined, and built into the architecture of the city. Though reverence for nature runs deep in Japan’s cultural identity, these waterways reflect another truth: the transformation of a natural system into urban infrastructure.
This series records that condition—neither new nor sudden, but so complete it can almost go unnoticed.
As someone photographing a place not my own, I came without a plan to interpret, only to look. The rivers became a way to navigate the city, and perhaps my distance from it. I followed their paths, one bridge at a time, observing what remains when nature is formalized—when water, once wild, is asked to behave.
There’s no nostalgia in these photographs. Only repetition, structure, and the quiet persistence of flow.