Photographer Michael Wolf spent 30 days in a Tokyo metro station, capturing the traumatised faces of commuters on their way to work. “It’s the negative side of these mega-cities,” he says. “My wife goes to work every day in Paris, and she hates it. You really need to compartmentalise yourself. You’re breathing other people’s sweat and perfume – and the proximity, one body touching the next, is horrible. It’s made by humans; we did this to ourselves.” The photographs were all taken at one station on Tokyo’s Odakyu Line – the only stop where Wolf could get really close to the train windows. “Every 80 seconds a new train runs in,” explains Wolf. “When the commuters get in and are pushed against a window, I’m two inches away from that window.” More here.
