Midnight Factory Light Parade by Miku Yokoyama

To Miku Yokoyama, the ‘sparkling beauty’ of Japan’s industrial landscapes look like parades of light, when observed through a telephoto lens. The photographs in this series were taken over approximately three years, from June 2020 to March 2023, at factories in various prefectures including Osaka, Wakayama, Mie, Okayama, Hiroshima and Kanagawa.In 2020, the plant in Takaishi City, the starting point of the project, ceased operations, and as of 2024, has been dismantled and no longer exists. The three photographs of factory nightscapes of this plant in the series are, the photographer says, ‘Precious images that can never be captured again.’ The photographs in the series were taken using a tripod and long exposure and digitally edited for color adjustments.