¬†”If you think of Japan, you may have a strong image of beautiful nature and oriental culture.

However, after experiencing the period of the high growth of economy, Japan now suffers environmental disruption everywhere.

When you come to Japan, you might not even find it beautiful. It is a pity, but it is true.”

In his Neo-Ruins series, Motoda depicts a post-apocalyptic Tokyo, where familiar landscapes in the central districts of Ginza, Shibuya, and Asakusa are reduced to ruins and the streets eerily devoid of humans.

The weeds that have sprouted from the fissures in the ground seem to be the only living organisms.

“In Neo-Ruins I wanted to capture both a sense of the world’s past and of the worldÔæïs future,” he explains.

Motoda’s view of the future at first seems nihilistic, but the proliferation of plant life in the ruined streets seems to suggest that there are other ways for the plant to survive even after our great cities have fallen.

More pics here.