Tokyo-based artist and photographer Rumi Ando creates images that straddle melancholy and optimism, mundanity and surrealism. Back in 2010, for instance, her Dream Islands series abstracted the city’s waste-disposal facilities into simple compositions, rendering them beautiful and downright ethereal. In 2016, Ando widened her lens to the urban skyline, capturing an unsettling vision of the city in a series called Tokyo Nude, which became a book last year…
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