12 fantastic photos of factories in Japan

reon · February 9, 2009, 3:00pm

Lately, I’m having a “factory fetish,” (or “kōjō moe” as they say in Japanese) after browsing through some fascinating pictures of factories in flickr, especially those of sielbleu, hanazuc, totoon and beef.200%. The photographers kindly let me reproduce their photos here.

There is something fascinating about factories at night: the surreal colors, the dazzling lights, smoke billowing through the night air, the almost audible sound of a busy industrial complex. The photos themselves conjure up images of some strange, enormous, metallic creatures of the night on an alien landscape.

These 12 photos are but a small collection; please visit the photographers’ flickr photostream and blogs for more more: sielbleu, hanazuc (Blog: Not Wild Style), totoon (Blog: Penki Nurikake), beef.200%.