新納翔

Sho Niiro

When photographing urban landscapes, I sometimes encounter scenes that give me a certain sense of unease. They are as if a bug created by a computer virus, or as if the broken URL link to the different times. The true nature of this unease, I thought, might be the glimpse of urban landscape of future. If so, the medium of photography makes it possible to capture a scene of the future. Is it not a glimpse of the city of the future? If so, the medium of photography makes it possible to capture a glimpse of the future. I name this imaginary city “PETALOPOLIS”, following the term for economies "Megalopolis" proposed in the 1960s to describe the way huge cities were connected by the development of transportation networks. *mega