Independent On Sunday
Date
06.05.12
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The Shibuya was selected as 'Photography Book of the Week' by the Independent on Sunday. The text accompanying the piece is below:
Shibuya, one of the less explicitly political books by the English photojournalist Adam Hinton, is a series of portraits of commuters using one of the worlds busiest train stations, in Shibuya, Tokyo. Catching them in private or contemplative moments, and somehow isolated from their fellow travellers, it's mood is paradoxically quiet and still, yet it also speaks of their weariness, and of the heavy toll of participating in a market driven economy. Says Hinton: "Little did I know about the terrible events that would befall Japan two months later [earthquake and tsunami], which seems to add another layer to the images."
Shibuya, one of the less explicitly political books by the English photojournalist Adam Hinton, is a series of portraits of commuters using one of the worlds busiest train stations, in Shibuya, Tokyo. Catching them in private or contemplative moments, and somehow isolated from their fellow travellers, it's mood is paradoxically quiet and still, yet it also speaks of their weariness, and of the heavy toll of participating in a market driven economy. Says Hinton: "Little did I know about the terrible events that would befall Japan two months later [earthquake and tsunami], which seems to add another layer to the images."
Independent on Sunday. 6th May 2012
