Sohei Nishino’s vast five-metre-wide work is the centrepiece of a new exhibition at V&A Dundee – and it shows the city like never before
The link between photography and the modern city is well established. In the mid-19th century this developing technology was perfectly suited to capture turbo-charged urban growth as it happened, providing a new way of seeing emerging global metropolises.
“Photography not only depicted these wholly novel sorts of environments,” says Meredith More, a curator at the V&A Dundee. “It became an expression in itself of their modernity and complexity. The way people began to imagine and to inhabit their cities was profoundly influenced by the way they were photographed.”
