THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT

There are some recurring images: the grainy close-up of a torn pornographic film poster on a peeling wall; a woman’s legs in mesh tights picked out in a crowded street; a filth-strewn back alley crisscrossed with electric wires; a blown-up newspaper photograph; net curtains in a cheap hotel room; a dilapidated old bar with broken neon lights.  Moriyama has an exact eye for the textures of urban life, often decaying, ephemeral, sadly alluring in their temporary shine.

Buruma/Moriyama, Riot Material, 2018