The View Out of My Window: Seoul, Busan, Tokyo, Taipei, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore

Goran Potkonjak’s photographs capture life in ten major Asian cities.

Since 2015, Swiss photographer Goran Potkonjak has visited ten major Asian cities: Bangkok, Busan, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Seoul, Shenzhen, Singapore, Taipei, and Tokyo. His large-scale art project documents these megacities and their architecture through images taken from two different viewpoints: from the upper floors of high-rise buildings and at street level. The result is a multilayered, precise view of each of these vibrant metropolises.

The View Out of My Window brings together two hundred photographs from this artistic research—twenty views of each city. The book thus reveals the essence of our urban present fascinatingly: such vast cities thrive on their contradictions, in which inexhaustible energy often alternates with surprising calmness. Goran Potkonjak’s images impressively illustrate this balance.

Goran Potkonjak, born in 1968 in Croatia, is a Swiss photographer.