Street Tainan: Photographs from Taiwan’s oldest city

“Street Tainan” is the second book focusing on Taiwan’s oldest and perhaps most beloved city. As the former capital and current cultural capital, Tainan is a unique blend of the old and the new, the permanent and the temporary, the revered and the irreverent, the sleepy and the energetic. Every street corner has a Buddhist temple; every section of the city hosts a distinctive night market. The number of museums would seem to equal the number of bubble tea shops. And there are a lot of bubble tea shops. Like most towns full of paradox, the hustle of daily life inevitably means overlooking the details, nuances and minutiae that define a city’s essence. We look, but we don’t really see. These photographs capture some of that overlooked, unobserved, unconsidered routine. For it is there that we find the hidden joys, the unexpected beauty and a true appreciation of the eccentricities of everyday life. — ISBN13: 9798320353593