Photographer Captures Uncomfortable Images Of Commuters



Having to ride the train home after work is bad enough, but when you are crammed so tightly into each car that your face is smashed up against the window the ride home becomes a trip straight to hell.

Photographer Michael Wolf decided to capture images of commuters at their most (de)pressed, all hope lost and face pressed to the glass, in his series entitled Tokyo Compression.

The images are at once uncomfortable and undeniably humanistic, and something anyone who has been forced to ride on public transportation in a major city during rush hour can relate to.

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Yes, I have a few tales from the Tokyo subway myself. But as a big, blondish European male, I think that I was given a few extra centimeters of space, so I can't complain.

But I find these pictures oddly moving.
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NeeserJanuary 13, 2012 at 11:30 pmEach time I come back and look, I see a new photo that I didn't really see' beorfe. This time it was Kinkhab's photo of the woman holding the child. Subtle, but grows on you, if that makes any sense??
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I thought it was probably photoshopped until I watched the news interview of it. Damn, it makes you wonder how many times you have been to the beach with a shark just beneath the water...
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"Oh, well, if it’s on the News, it must be true!"

Obviously not, but his story checked out: There was a witness, supposedly they are common there, and he didn't look like the type of guy to photoshop something like that.

But who knows. All I'm saying is you can't just automatically assume an amazing photograph had to have been faked.
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Yes I can, Justin. I can automatically assume whatever I want, thank you very much.

"he didn’t look like the type of guy to photoshop something like that."

What does the typical photoshopper look like?

I'm not saying the picture is shopped; I was just hinting at the fact that so many urban legends and fake items hit the news all the time.
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