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Neo-Ruins: Post-Apocalyptic Tokyo

Featured on Wired, these lithographs depict the cityscapes of a post-apocalyptic Tokyo. Familiar streets lie deserted, the buildings are crumbling and weeds grow from the broken pavement.

From Motoda's own website:

In his Neo-Ruins series Motoda depicts a post-apocalyptic Tokyo, where familiar landscapes in the central districts of Ginza, Shibuya, and Asakusa are reduced to ruins and the streets eerily devoid of humans. The weeds that have sprouted from the fissures in the ground seem to be the only living organisms. "In Neo-Ruins I wanted to capture both a sense of the world's past and of the world's future," he explains.

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