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LIGHT CHASER Inspired by the cinematic vistas that Tokyo has to offer, photographer Lukasz Palka has spent nearly a decade capturing the city’s bright spots and hidden corners Words by Tracy Jones Photographs by Lukasz Palka 24 | DEC 2017 - JAN 2018 | TOKYO WEEKENDER
EVEN THOUGH IT’S A CITY OF 13 MILLION PEOPLE ... THERE ARE THESE UNKNOWN PLACES endless ... As a photographer, there are so many stories to tell, so many things to shoot.” His Noctopolis series is a collection of night images that capture a city unwinding from its daily grind. In one photo, there’s a narrow enclave exposing the back kitchen of a Chinese restaurant. The scene is a cavernous patchwork of hangers, a sink, two white statues of smiling children, and tarp hanging from the ceiling corners. Colors and detail compose chaos. Everything looks like it could be covered in grease with peach hairs of dust and grit, giving it texture. Lukasz says that he was thinking of the street scenes from Blade Runner when he shot it. (At the time of writing, the film Blade Runner 2049 had just been released in Japan. Lukasz had already seen it. He says he “still prefers the original. But this one was a great continuation and expansion of the world. I enjoyed it a lot.”) The film’s apparent influence on Lukasz’s work gives Photographer and Eyexplore co-founder Lukasz Palka came to Tokyo as a Sophia University exchange student. He was born in Poland, but his parents immigrated to Chicago when he was five. After graduating college, to postpone “getting a real job,” he figured he’d teach English in Japan. It didn’t seem far-fetched since some of his friends were already doing it. Nine years ago, his plan was to stay here for a year. While teaching during the day and photographing Tokyo at night, he fell in love with the city. Taking pictures was always a casual hobby. It was something that he picked up from his father, but the longer he stayed here, the more serious he got about his craft. “What I like most is Tokyo itself,” he says. Famous for its otherworldly culture, the city’s nightscape is like an incarnation of the film Tron. The limelights of Tokyo’s popular spots beam an omnipresent tone, coloring the reflecting streets. It’s the dark fringes of those areas that Lukasz drifts through, unearthing their beauty as though mining treasure. “Tokyo does have its touristy spots, but if you go 15 minutes in any direction, away from those hot spots, suddenly you’re on your own. You might find something to photograph that no one’s ever photographed before. Even though it’s a city of 13 million people ... there are these unknown places,” he says. Focusing on landscape and street photography, “Tokyo is extremely diverse when you go to different areas ... it’s so big and TOKYO WEEKENDER | DEC 2017 - JAN 2018 | 25
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