After dark, many Japanese cities shift to a smaller scale: narrow alleys of bars, red lanterns over doorways and signs stacked up the buildings. A gallery of the country's evening streets.
Red alleys, stacked signs, wet pavement doubling every light. A short essay on why East Asian cities look like this at night, and why we keep photographing them.
Silk lanterns in Hội An, rows of red lanterns in Kaohsiung, a single red lantern outside a Japanese bar. The same object carries very different messages.