Joe Nishizawa: Japan’s underground photography
24 Jul 2006 Category: Features, Japan, Photography, Top Page 10
A enormous underground tunnel that runs through 40metres under the Hibiya Junction Tokyo or an underground dome that lies 500metres below deep in the mountains of Gunma…? In Japan unimaginably large spaces underneath our ground level lives exist. Even beyond the high walls of nuclear power stations, incineration plants or energy research organizations futuristic cities that we thought only to exist in science fiction movies unfold - not far from your neighbourhood. I talked to Joe Nishizawa who photographed such hyper-surreal dimensions in Japan and just published a book Deep Inside.
Written by Kaori Nishida
All images © JOE NISHIZAWA
Nishizawa-san, flipping through the pages of your book “Deep Inside” one gets sucked into this technical-magic-wonderland. I can’t believe that those places actually look like that - better than any CG setting I have ever seen. Bladerunner would simply be jeallous! Even the lighting is perfect in pink and green!
Oh no, absolutely no computer graphics involved in these photos. That’s essentially what those places look like - for example one right below Hibiya Junction.
Lightings and everything is just captured as it was there - I didn’t even use a flash light! It’s magic: you first hear the car noises on the ground level and as you descend slowly, suddenly, this vast and silent space unfolds in front of you.
I was involved with an open-public event called TOKYO GEO-SITE PROJECT. They opened the construction sites of the Hibiya Joint Utility Tunnel for several days to public. It is placed in the middle of just an ordinary park-like field, but opening a thin door, you get to experience a totally different futuristic world. Strongly attached to such extraordinary spaces in these no-go areas, the book “Deep Inside” evolved and compiles such photographs of different dimensions in Japan.
Still lively under construction 30metres below the Yamate Street in Tokyo, a project called TOKYO TUNNELIX opens the Central Circular Shinjuku Route construction site to the public. You joined the TOKYO TUNNELIX as an official cameraman - what was it like?
Well, I have been photographing the construction process officially for a while. Some of those photos - such as the Yoyogi Shield - are included in the book, too. Along with that, I have done other projects as well, like photographing at the “Chitei Fashion Show”, a fashion show by Bernhard Willhelm which was held inside the underground tunnel back in October 2005. The German designer created a fashion line inspired by the [Japanese construction workers fashion](http://www.pingmag.jp/2006/01/18/construction-worker-fashion/. The models who did the catwalk were the real construction workers who worked at that site.
In the book, there are also some photos of nuclear power stations!!? What security provisions did you have to make?
In order to shoot this place, I wore three-layer protective and the camera was wrapped around with plastic and tapes. Also I was told that “this power station has to stop for a full month” - in case I accidentally dropped camera. This totally freaked me out, so I had to put an extra camera strap around my neck, attach the camera firmly to the tripod leaning extra cautiously over the fence with the PR personnel from the power station holding my legs tight… Also for security reasons, there were many parts and bits that could not be photographed. I had to ask the PR personnel to check my photos from every new angle.
Another place that I could imaging quite challenging to take photos at was inside a garbage incineration plant!? Did you really go in?
Yes, I did. I was literally the first person and camera to ever enter such place for a photography shoot. They told me I had to take a thorough bathing after the shoot, before exiting the plant in order to completely rub off the smell. So I packed an extra set of clothes, took a very nice bath with other workers after the shoot, put my fresh clothes on - but just outside I realized that I forgot to change the camera strap! That was stinking badly on the way back in the train…
Just published: Joe Nishizawa’s book ‘Deep Inside’
Joe Nishizawa and his Canon 35mm film camera, which was used for most of the photos
I think that many people are fascinated by a certain “beauty in function”. Is that also something you were keen to express through your photography?
Shapes, colours, lights - not a single element you see in the photos was designed for the sake of beauty. They were totally designed for ultimate functionality. Yet, I do found such an extraordinary futuristic beauty in such places and I wish people can also find that in my photos.
I also want people to know that such a superb top-of-the world technology exists in Japan. These enormous objects and constructions are almost sealed, locked up as a restricted area which ordinary people like us have no access to. Chances to ever get a glimpse of it are so rare, that I almost consider it as my duty to make full use of photography as a medium to visually introduce the country’s pride in technologies to people - not only internationally, but simply to Japanese citizens, who have no idea of what lies beneath their feet.
Nishizawa-san, thank you so much for the interesting episodes and stunning photos! I look forward to seeing more extraordinary beauties from the restricted areas underground!
NOTE: I highly recommend to look at Joe Nishizawa’s book! Those images just can’t be big enough!
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It’s amazying :0, it seems to be a disco ground…
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Posted by: Balakumar Muthu on July 24th, 2006 at 10:17 pm
Is there any way to get this book in the states? I love this photography. Great write-up, too.
Posted by: Aaron Quint on July 25th, 2006 at 1:04 am
I’d love to see you photograph the goatse man.
Posted by: spanky on July 25th, 2006 at 1:48 am
Hibiya Joint Utility Tunnel: Thats the end of a tunnel boring machine. They guy in the bucket loader is cleaning debris from where the machine came through a wall.
Posted by: jme on July 25th, 2006 at 2:08 am
Beautiful
No other way to describe it
Pure beauty
Much love
Posted by: Clarissa on July 25th, 2006 at 3:52 am
this stuff looks like its from a fucking sci-fi mivie or somthing1
Posted by: Anonymous on July 25th, 2006 at 4:35 am
KILLER!
Posted by: Anonymous on July 25th, 2006 at 4:35 am
There should be a word for the feeling when you discover that something you always felt should be real, but thought wasn’t, in fact is.
Beyond, y’know, delicious.
Posted by: Neil on July 25th, 2006 at 4:56 am
Tubed.
Posted by: dH on July 25th, 2006 at 6:21 am
Most Excellent Photos. Thanks for sharing them.
Posted by: Fishin Dog on July 25th, 2006 at 6:54 am
Thanks for the beautiful views askew. Neil has it right: that feeling that something felt so right but wasn’t even there only to discover it was. Incredible.
Posted by: Thresher on July 25th, 2006 at 8:26 am
thats gotta be computer generated
Posted by: bl on July 25th, 2006 at 9:42 am
thats gotta be computer generated
Posted by: gdiuytbgfeiugfyy on July 25th, 2006 at 9:44 am
i just think its unreal case its way to big i mean come on its just unrealistic its gotta to be computer genarated.
Posted by: gdiuytb gfeiugfyy on July 25th, 2006 at 9:47 am
Amazing!
Even if it was CG.
Posted by: Cruddy on July 25th, 2006 at 10:56 am
Wow thats amazing! Its pretty surreal, I feel like im looking at something from a video game or something.
Posted by: MissionCat on July 25th, 2006 at 11:02 am
I would laugh if an earthquake destroyed all of that
Posted by: Anonymous on July 25th, 2006 at 12:23 pm
No, they don’t have to “computer generated” or assisted…the right person behind the lens and in the darkroom can create wonders….and the man said he used only available light. Give credit where due…the man is gifted. Thanks for showing the world you art.
Posted by: J.Walker on July 25th, 2006 at 12:24 pm
Looks like Half-Life
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Posted by: Human-Error Processor on July 25th, 2006 at 1:24 pm
I have to smile in pity for those who think these beautiful photos are “computer generated”… for they are, in fact, completely clueless; they have simply never seen large industrial installations in their lives, and so simply cannot believe the scale of it.
But I know these photos are true. I have seen - and experienced - similar. I have worked inside pulp mills and steel factories; seen the six-story-tall engine room of an oceangoing ship; have visited the Boeing plant, in Renton; and - yes; I have even managed, once, to stand on top of an operating nuclear reactor - the small experimental one, at McMaster’s University, in Ontario - and gaze down through the heavy water at the beautiful Cerenkov radiation emanating from the naked core.
I thank you, Nishizawa-san, for bringing these glimpses of our technological world to the light of unknowing, everyday reality.
And if I may make one more comment… the thing that I do find most striking in these pictures is this: how clean and orderly your sites are, in comparison to ours - surely you have that fact alone to be proud of, for that too is an achievement… a social one.
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Posted by: handcircus » Blog Archive » Joe Nishizawa: Japan’s underground photography on July 25th, 2006 at 5:05 pm
all is, thats gotta be computer generated
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I knew it! Giant robot factories!
top work.
Perhaps the reason it looks computer generated is because everything is so clean :)
Posted by: sparkus.prime on July 25th, 2006 at 8:49 pm
absolutely amazing.
Posted by: c b on July 26th, 2006 at 3:09 am
who cares……. get a life and photograph something of relevence
Posted by: Anonymous on July 26th, 2006 at 3:26 am
Amazing photography.
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Posted by: // pixelimpact: creative photography on the web on July 26th, 2006 at 4:43 am
Very cool, very cool… I do, however, want to dispute his claim of being the first to enter and photograph a garbage-incineration plant in Japan. Well, I guess it depends on when he took the pictures. I visited one in the summer of 2005, in Kanawagwa, and took plenty of pictures (they’re on my flickr site). He must have gone to a much more intense plant, though, because I didn’t stink too bad afterwards.
Gotta love the shot of the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization…
Posted by: Strader on July 26th, 2006 at 6:04 am
Really awesome…. I wish someone in the states would sell this book!
Posted by: Anonymous on July 26th, 2006 at 6:23 am
Watch out for the element users. They’re very angry about being locked away in the underground for so many generations, and they’ll kill you as soon as look at you.
Posted by: Megane-kun on July 26th, 2006 at 7:20 am
How orderly and well lit. As any small enclosed city should be. We should all be so clean, it is hard to imagine the smell you describe from the photos. We should all be so proud of what we walk upon. Thank you for the too brief journey via your art.
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All I can say is WOW!
Fantastic photos!
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Wonderful photos!
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There’s beauty in your art, and honor in your work. Really amazing.
Posted by: Toomin Silverhawk on July 27th, 2006 at 2:45 am
Fantastic photographs! Industrial architecture has a beauty all of it’s own, even stuff no one’s supposed to see.
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i love what that guys wearing! with the black n white =)
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I just ordered the book at Amazon.jp and with shipping the total is $36.00 U.S.
Easy to find thanks to Ping Mag’s bilingual website. Or search “Deep Inside” in English
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While these pictures are clearly NOT CG, they would make some excellent inspiration for FPS environments. (as a note, I have seen CG of this quality before, but I believe these are real photos)
Posted by: SparcMan on July 28th, 2006 at 4:50 pm
I would laugh if an earthquake destroyed all of that
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WHY?
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Wow that first photograph is amazing
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amazing,beautiful,breathtaking…
theres no way to describe it…
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Posted by: Anonymous on September 12th, 2006 at 1:50 am
Awesome, i love the photos. Great job.
Posted by: mjorge on September 12th, 2006 at 7:22 am
I’ve just fallen in love with tunnels too, mining tunnels particularly. But this type of machinery photography is just amazing! I’m shifting my interest…THANKS for your photo gems!
Posted by: gemstone on September 12th, 2006 at 1:55 pm
what is the fuss about?
no different to what you see on those construction shows on the discovery channel every five hours
Posted by: surfwax on September 19th, 2006 at 3:16 pm
Cool… I guess.
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stunning underworld!
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Posted by: Piranha Daily News » Joe Nishizawa: Japan’s underground photography on October 21st, 2006 at 10:07 am
joe for me as an civil engeneering student you are the master of pics. very dellicate style you have…
much regards from iran
Miad Kasravi
Posted by: miademus on October 30th, 2006 at 7:34 pm
Hei! luogo che interessante avete fatto, ben cotto!
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i appraciet your innovation and i want to share your expriance.
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when our country get this technology ,even your get this but ethiopia canot this i hope God give this technology for our country but i don’t miss your inovation and appraciet your inovation you use to this technology to good thing.
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Interessando, luogo abbastanza luminoso, penso +5
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cool pictures :)
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As so many of the people here have already said, they are astounding photos of amazing spaces. While such places are common in sci-fi and anime, it’s strange to think that these exist in the real world, and sometime right beneath out feet. Even in London are are whole underground reservoirs, the Honor Oak reservoir holds 256 million litres of water and was built almost 100 years ago.
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Posted by: eyesponge » Joe Nishizawa: Japan Underground Photography on July 20th, 2007 at 8:59 pm
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Posted by: Joe Nishizawa: Japan’s underground photography | Adobe Forum on October 10th, 2007 at 7:15 pm
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Posted by: Chung Dha on November 19th, 2007 at 11:52 pm
Japan always has very creative photographers.
Posted by: Photographers in Japan on November 23rd, 2007 at 5:12 pm
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[...] the inimitable web magazine, PingMag, featured an interview with Joe Nishizawa, who documented the underground tunnels and construction work that expand like a [...]
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Posted by: multilink » Blog Archive » Joe Nishizawa on April 2nd, 2008 at 8:59 pm
Is this somewhere on earth on Martians are preparing to attack us?
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Posted by: Japan’s Underground Photography « Eddy Web Blog on May 26th, 2008 at 11:35 am
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Posted by: Konie on July 28th, 2008 at 8:11 am
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Posted by: Schody on July 28th, 2008 at 8:13 am
That is so cool!
Posted by: Anonymous on January 4th, 2009 at 10:11 am
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Posted by: jennifer on October 1st, 2009 at 11:30 pm
awsome pics
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