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Eiji Ohashi, Roadside Lights (Japan)

Hokkaido-born and based photographer Eiji Ohashihas been photographing Roadside Lights, a typology of vending machines across various cities and landscapes in Japan for years. “In Hokkaido where I live, winters are harsh and snows are deep,” says photographer Eiji Ohashi. “Every day can become rather inconvenient” due to the constant snowfall. But heavy snows also bring wintry wonderlands and the discovery of small pleasures.In Japan, the vending machine was completely excavated out of his potential.They appear in any place, may be the bustling city center, it may be wilderness.It provides people with the greatest convenience, quietly guarding the strange side of the unfamiliar close or indifference, to some social fear of patients also brought convenience . So that they try not to disturb others are not disturbed. See these vending machines seem to see their own, sometimes lonely but quietly accompanied.

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