Living Worlds
Akihabara in 1984 at dusk, electronics stacked to the pavement, glowing shop signs, shoppers and students.

1960–2000 · Tokyo, 1984

Electric Town

Everything new is tried in the shop first.

The law of Electric Town

Everything new is tried in the shop first.

Tokyo, 1984: in Akihabara's Electric Town, shops spill onto the pavement with portable tape players, video recorders, CD players and the new home game consoles.

A shop clerk handing a schoolboy headphones to try a portable cassette player.

A life in Electric Town · composite, based on the record

A shop clerk, twenty-five

He hands a schoolboy the headphones and watches his face. It happens a dozen times a day and never gets old.

Meanwhile, in the same age

The electric century

A double-hulled voyaging canoe with pandanus sails on the open Pacific at dusk.

Which world will you live in?