Overview
No matter how different or far apart, cities at night share particular features: neon lights and lonely figures, quiet train stations and taxi drivers, empty buildings and streets. Quietness falls, the urban pulse slows, rain gathers in silvery pools undisturbed by traffic. In After Dark, Liam Wong encounters the people and places, the slivers of life, that move differently in this time, weaving these fine dark threads into an insomniac’s journey of night.
Following his début monograph, TO:KY:OO, which captured Tokyo’s beauty at night, Wong widens his lens from the city that became his spiritual and photographic muse to Osaka and Kyoto, London and Seoul, Paris and Rome. But he goes still further, seeking the rich tapestries of nightlife in the foggy historical streets of his hometown Edinburgh, penetrating the backstreets of the megacity Chongqing, and seizing the verticality of Hong Kong from its rooftops.
Through his previous work as a videogame designer, Wong learned that ‘real life is just as potent, bizarre and interesting as things we can imagine.’ Through sleepless and solitary nights, After Dark explores the phenomenon of loneliness in city life, capturing urban interstices between dusk and dawn: the eerie emptiness of London’s Piccadilly Circus at 4:00 am, Seoul’s late-night taxi drivers moving along hushed roads, two birds sharing the warmth of neon sign in Hong Kong’s TSM District, a salaryman waiting on an empty subway platform in Tokyo’s Akihabara district in front of the world‘s largest electronic store – mysterious silhouettes representing lives lived in shadow, portrayed as intricate cinematic visions, all before the sun rises.
Daniel Torres Angás
Lol I just saw this and never received the mail either. Quite unfair to be honest.
Beth
Hi Daniel, I’m sorry to hear that you never received this email update. In cases where we don’t receive a specific Benefactor name, we do use the customer’s Billing name to be credited in the book, which I hope is acceptable for you on this occasion. Thanks!
stevemilne
Gah, I never got an email about this either! I’ve updated it but I’m guessing its way to late now?
Beth
Hi Steve, just letting you know that I’ve replied to you separate email. Thanks!
Hunain Naseer
Just saw this and hadn’t gotten the email in my inbox. I’ve updated the name now and would like it to be included.
holam1hk
I have just updated my Benefactor name. I check junk box every day and I can’t get the email 🙁
Beth
Hello! Sorry to hear that you never received the email update – I will pass this on to our developer to see what they can do. Also, I believe the files have not been sent to the printers yet, so you should be in luck with having your Benefactor name included. Thanks!
Alina Cartan
I’m hoping I made it just in time! I did not get any email about this either!!
Beth
Hello! Sorry to hear that you never received the email update – I will pass this on to our developer to see what they can do. Also, I believe the files have not been sent to the printers yet, so you should be in luck with having your Benefactor name included. Thanks!
bob76w
I also never received this update, just checked in to see where things were at and seen it
Beth
Hi Bob,
Sorry to hear that you never received this update – it’s possible that it got sent to your spam folder. The good news is that the files have not been sent to the printers yet, so your Benefactor name will be printed in the book.
Alistair Kenyon-Brodie
I’ve just updated my name too. So hopefully I can be Included!
Beth
Hi Alistair, the files have not been sent to the printers yet – so you should be in luck in having your name printed!
Stephen Wales
Shame this wasn’t sent as an email, I completely missed this update.
Beth
Hi Stephen, you should have received this update as an email. There is still time to add your Benefactor name before the files are sent to the printers. Let me know if you need any help with that. Thanks!