Put simply, Ross C Kelly takes a lot of photos, and he recreates the scene by putting back together all these pictures in a big photomontage. The above image is made of a collage of 1335 photos. Of course, it looks small on the web, but the poster I bought the other day is much cooler to look at.

Because he mixes photos taken at different times of the day, he can have a final image with elements of day and night at the same time like in a Magritte painting, crowded places become empty (a bit similar to Tokyo Nobody), and overall the elements of nature and architecture stand out beautifully. But he stays faithful to proportions and perspectives, making his landscape become more interesting because they looks real, as you’re used to see it, not just like some weird cubism interepretation, and renders the montage even more powerful and somehow disturbing.

View the rest of his Tokyo Portfolio. As well as high wiRe, another very cool portfolio of his.