Roppongi Haze nightlife The bridge tower sits dead-centre

The bridge tower sits dead-centre as the quiet anchor while everything else — water

Where other pieces in the series look out to sea or down a back road

a man in green sits on a low wall to the right

A small bilingual sign leans against the wainscot — please don't touch anything exhibited in this house — and the floorboards run amber under a soft column of sun

Roppongi Haze nightlife The bridge tower sits dead-centreRoppongi Haze is a vertical view across central Tokyo on a flat grey afternoon, taken from somewhere up the kind of window perch that flattens the city into a loose grid of towers, low rise blocks and the soft grey wash of a sky that hasn't decided what kind of day it is. Two pale skyscrapers anchor the left side; behind them, a rolling carpet of buildings drifts toward a horizon the haze swallows entirely. The 35mm film grain warms the cool palette