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Liam Wong: After Dark

Liam Wong, Evie Tarr

£35.00

An intimate, one-of-a-kind photographic journey that documents Liam Wong’s nocturnal wanderings through the world’s most captivating cities

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Overview

Liam Wong’s world starts after dark and ends at first light. When the night draws in and the lights go down, his urban explorations and cinematic narratives truly begin.

In his previous career as a game designer, Wong learned that ‘real life is just as potent, bizarre and interesting as things we can imagine.’ In his début monograph, TO:KY:OO, he captured the beauty of the city at night. In this new publication, Wong widens his lens from the city that became his photographic muse to Osaka, Kyoto, London, Seoul, Paris and more.

The eerie emptiness of London’s Piccadilly Circus at 4:00 am, silhouettes in Seoul captured during monsoon season, a salaryman waiting on an empty subway platform in Tokyo’s Akihabara district in front of the world’s largest electronics store – mysterious ghosts representing lives lived in shadow, portrayed as intricate cinematic visions, all before the sun rises. In this evocative study of cities after midnight, Wong documents how people and places are altered when darkness falls. He weaves slivers of life, delicate and covert threads, into an insomniac’s journey through the solitude and uncertainty of the night.

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Reviews

'An enchanting portrait of what the world looks like while most of us are fast asleep'
The i newspaper

Product Information

Book Details

Format: PLC (no jacket)

Size: 22.0 x 31.5 cm

Extent: 192 pp

Publication date: 20 October 2022

ISBN: 9780500025550

Contents List

Intro
1. Society
2. Alone Together
3. Solitude
4. Emptiness

About the Author

Liam Wong is an award-winning freelance art director. Graphic designer, former game developer and now photographer, he is best known for defining, designing and directing visual identities. His first book, the bestselling TO:KY:OO, was published by Volume and Thames & Hudson in 2019.