ALESSANDRO ZANONI
Facing Giants

Photographed at night in Tokyo, this series sees the city as a multilayered organism where railways, expressways, waterways and monorails intersect with architecture. Over seven years I explored Tokyo’s nocturnal landscape; this excerpt focuses on compression points where flows of speed, light and matter converge. Captured exclusively after dark, the images reveal a hidden dimension of the metropolis, where infrastructures form a dense sculptural network and the ground seems to lift into overlapping frameworks. Facing Giants is part of a long-term project that evolves over time and will culminate in a book. Conceived as a psychogeographic journey, the work reflects on how these monumental yet often unnoticed systems shape urban life as profoundly as the city’s visible symbols, offering a portrait of Tokyo suspended between motion, scale and quiet intensity.

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