The series Tokyo, created in 1989, marks the beginning of Park, HongChun’s long-exposure photography. Tokyo was inspired by Louis Daguerre's photo of Boulevard du Temple, which was taken using the daguerreotype process 160 years ago; in that photo, moving objects are not impressed (except for a person having his boots polished) due to the extremely long exposure. Park employed this old technique deliberately to eliminate the human presence from urban landscapes―reflecting skepticism toward the fate of each individual within modern, industrialized society. The Tokyo series captures days in the life of the bustling city through use of approximately the same exposure time of the earliest daguerreotype process. In this long exposure, inanimate buildings and architectural monuments look the same as they would in a typical snapshot, but everything around them―all that moves, including human beings―is seen as an enigmatic blur hovering around modern city structures. The photos are effective: quiet, surreal, and full of decadence. What the artist contributes to the tradition of this technique is not only a visual critique of modern society, but also peculiar chromatics that create a heavier and more depressing atmosphere. The uncommon colors seen in this work, a unique feature of his extended-exposure photographs, also lure viewers into his quiet and reflective landscapes.