Naked Cities-Empty Views by Toshiya Momose (September 28, 2009) 
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All seven photographers presented this week have been selected from the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts' annual Young Portfolio Acquisitions program. The program aims at encouraging young persons enthusiastic about expressing themselves through the art of photography. The Young Portfolio Acquisitions event is not a contest. All photographers, professional or amateur and regardless of nationality, are invited to submit their published or unpublished works to be considered for induction into the Museum's permanent collection. The single condition is that applicants must not be older than thirty five years. The program started in 1995. Applicants can re-submit in subsequent years, this allows the museum to see how artists develop their vision. The museum calls for submission in April. Today's presentation: Naked Cities-Empty Views by Toshiya Momose.
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It has been eighteen years since I started taking pictures of the world’s cities in earnest.
While various photographers are fascinated by cities as objects, my theme is naked cities, or “empty views” that exist in cities. “Empty” means nothing within, thus it cannot be visualized and is intangible.
However there still is something one can feel living quietly at the root of cities, and it appears above ground in the empty cities all over the world.
This “something” swells as cities have more and more buildings made of concrete or shiny glass.
My trip that began in New York still goes on to Tokyo, Shanghai, Istanbul, Buenos Aires, Havana And India.
Toshiya Momose (1968) lives and works in Tokyo, Japan.
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