Naoya Hatakeyama used theatrical lights to create a mesmerizing photograph of the Shibuya River running through a channel in Tokyo, Japan. Hatakeyama has stated his desire to “challenge the anthropocentric mindset...upend our preconceptionsof aesthetics and humanity” and has gone further in explaining his motivation: “aspects of photography...are not human.” Hatakeyama's photograph mediates between nature and culture to recall the animating principles of Shinto. The river moving through its urban channel retains the power of moving water, essential as the cleansing agent in a Shinto purification rite.