Waiting • Lens-Artists Challenge #72
Japanese commuters, whether it’s by metro, bus, train etc. all share this one burning question when waiting for their means of transport to arrive during rush hour. When will we – in heaven’s name – finally arrive?
These 2 photos are photos of photos by Michael Wolf taken during an exhibition – Life in Cities – in the Hague. It perfectly captures the experience most Japanese – and gai-jin’s for that matter – must endure when traveling by subway in the notorious rush-hour.
Paradoxically, waiting to arrive more often than not is worse than waiting to depart!
I rather walked or biked the journey to the office and back in the time that I worked there. And when the weather was bad – hot, humid and rainy as in most of the summer- I indulged myself and took a $20 cab. Anything better than to wait in a smelly, humid and packed metro to finally arrive.
Parts of this post were previously written for J.I. Roger’s Six-Word Story Challenge – “Waiting” and the Monday Window Challenge by Ludwig Keck– “Monday rush-hour”.
Thank you, Tiong for sharing Michael Wolf’s photos to express waiting. I agree, biking to work is much better choice than waiting for the train…
I can relate to the last one on the platform – I always think there are too many people waiting and it looks like someone might fall down.
Great photos, very theme-worthy.