Across, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan, July 2009

A wait, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan, July 2009

Throngs, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan, July 2009

Waiting, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan, July 2009

Signs of the connected urban life, outside every train and subway station in Tokyo are scattered clusters of people, in ones, twos and threes, waiting for someone to come through the gates, show up in their lives and pull them from their phones.