With the upcoming 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, the TOEI network chose Mark Power to showcase the rigorous work of maintenance which allows the huge network to operate daily. For the bus, the metro or the tram, the photographer has documented the diversity of the maintenance tasks, unknown by the public. He thus tried to capture “the beauty of usage “of this proliferation of tools and tasks which ensures the network’s functioning.
The images of the project were published in a book, MAINTENANCE, sold in Japan in the metro stations and in the bookshops. Posters have also been displayed on the network....