What does a normal crush in the Tokyo subway look like
Public transport during rush hour is a real horror: the apple is not that there is nowhere to fall, it is generally difficult for it to find a hundred cubic centimeters free of the exhausted bodies of unhappy passengers. However, things are still tolerable in the post-Soviet space, but in some East Asian states everything is quite bad. For example, in Tokyo. The subway of the Japanese capital at the busiest time of its work is a living hell, next to which the classic "folk festivals" on Vykhino did not even stand.
Michael Wolf in the pictures of his photo project called Tokyo Compression ("Crush in Tokyo") colorfully showed how residents of the Japanese capital get to work in the morning and home in the evenings. But what is more than commendable is the truly heroic endurance and calmness with which Tokyites endure this unpleasant situation every day.
Applying a diverse array of perspectives and visual approaches, Wolfe uses his camera to show the human energy that flows through a modern city. His photos fascinate with their frankness and unusual nature.
Every day, a huge number of people enter this underground hell and spend hours in a tight space between glass, steel and other people who are also traveling to their place of work or back home.
The photo captures countless faces of people, each of whom is trying to withstand this obvious madness in their own way. And, what is most interesting, you will not find evil faces in the photo of Wolfe. People tolerate an unattractive situation without aggression and in complete silence.
The project "Crush in Tokyo" focuses on the madness of the Tokyo underground system.
The hidden beauty of the photos is that they seem to offer you to figure out the fate of every tired, depressed traveler yourself.
The situation in the metro of the city, which is home to about 13 million people, is aggravated by the fact that every weekday about 2.5 million more people arrive here in a hurry to work or study.
People are so used to the terrible crowding and crowding in the subway that in this situation they manage to do unthinkable things: enjoy music, read books or take a peaceful nap.
Looking at the photos with the windows of the cars fogged up from the breath of the crowd, the bodies and faces of the lucky people who managed to get into the cars, flattened on the glass, and you yourself begin to feel some discomfort.
Indeed, Michael Wolfe's photo project "Crush in Tokyo", showing an ordinary and rather familiar situation for Tokyites, is a real nightmare for claustrophobics.
Keywords: Asia | Japan | Transport | Metro | People | Tokyo | Crowd | Crush | Photo project