Unreal cities: Sohei Nishino’s magical photographic maps of London, Tokyo and utopia
“The photographer is an armed version of the solitary walker,” wrote Susan Sontag in On Photography, “reconnoitring, stalking, cruising the urban inferno, the voyeuristic stroller who discovers the city as a landscape of voluptuous extremes.” Sontag’s “voyeuristic strollers” included Atget, Brassai and WeeGee, all of whom were “not attracted to the city’s official realities but […]

