Cities

Twelve cities.
The same discipline.

Cities are photographed here the way the wild is — from a distance, at the edges of the day, waiting for weather rather than chasing a landmark. Every one of them also has an animal living at its edge.

Asia · Japan

Tokyo

The largest city ever built, and the quietest crowd on earth.

Hong Kong

22.3°N

China

Vertical to a degree that stops reading as architecture.

New York

40.7°N

United States

A city photographed so much that the only option left is restraint.

Dubai

25.2°N

United Arab Emirates

A skyline built in thirty years, on a coastline that was empty.

Paris

48.9°N

France

A city with a height limit, which is why it reads as a whole.

Istanbul

41.0°N

Türkiye

The only city on two continents, and it behaves like it.

Singapore

1.4°N

Singapore

The only city that decided to become a rainforest again.

Venice

45.4°N

Italy

A city built on a lagoon that was never supposed to hold it.

Marrakesh

31.6°N

Morocco

A red city with the Atlas behind it and the Sahara beyond that.

Reykjavík

64.2°N

Iceland

The northernmost capital, small enough to leave in ten minutes.

Cape Town

33.9°S

South Africa

A city inside a national park, inside a biodiversity hotspot.

Varanasi

25.3°N

India

One of the oldest continuously inhabited cities on earth.

The point

No city is separate from the wild.

Peregrines on Manhattan bridges. Otters in Marina Bay. Flamingos inside Dubai. Raptor migration directly over Istanbul. The division between the urban and the natural is something we invented, and the animals never agreed to it.

See the wild side