Jean-Christophe Béchet
Tokyo Yamanote Line offers a journey through the heart of Tokyo, following one of the city’s most iconic infrastructures. Photographed from inside the trains of this circular railway line, which connects the main districts of the Japanese capital, the work unfolds as an extended urban tracking shot, with landscapes, architecture and fragments of the city passing before the viewer.
Developed over several complete journeys around the line, this series of 60 black-and-white photographs reveals a distinctive mapping of Tokyo, captured in all its movement and density. Through the perspective offered from within the train, the work explores the relationships between movement, territory and the perception of the urban landscape.
Tokyo Yamanote Line inaugurates the Travelling collection, devoted to routes, journeys and the geographies they traverse.