Uptown bound | Masayo Nishimura | Sokyusha 2024

“I began studying photography in 1993 at Hunter College in New York City. From the beginning, I was attracted to the lights and shadows created by the subway stations, in which the roofs of cars and tracks are bathed in sunlight from the street level, forming a unique shape of shadows. They looked serene and beautiful and often reminded me of Medieval religious paintings. I always marveled at the effects produced by this everyday environment.”
- From Masayo Nishimura’s afterword