Diorama Map Tokyo, 2024

Sohei Nishino is internationally recognised for his Diorama Maps—large-scale photographic collages that blend photography, cartography, and psychogeography. These intricate works depict major cities not only as geographic entities but as lived, emotional landscapes. Tokyo, 2024 marks his third exploration of his home city, deepening his personal mapping practice while engaging with Japanese visual traditions and historical cartography.

The first Tokyo map, created in 2004, introduced Nishino’s technique of assembling thousands of 35mm photographs into a composite cityscape. A decade later, Tokyo, 2014 expanded this vision with greater complexity and scale. Now, Tokyo, 2024 reimagines the metropolis once more, this time in a vertical format reminiscent of traditional Japanese hanging scrolls (sankei mandara), extending the artist’s evolving visual language.