5 Continents: Trails into the Unknown

5 Continents Trails Into The Unknown The cars roll on every day and I’m reminded that the earth is a planet. Resistance, damage, breakdown, but still moving on. Is it because these scenes overlap with ourselves that they stir emotions? The book features the roads and cars recorded by Mikiya Takimoto and some photographers who have studied under him: Kenichi Higuchi, Chiyoe Sugita, Fumihito Katamura, and Shinya Sato. Finessing publication in unbound, box form allows each photo to tell its story one by one as you hold them in your hands. To create the shape of the future Toyota. To that end, the photographers face their cars, time stripped bare, just themselves and the road. The Toyota 5 Continents Drive Project started with Toyota Group employees from across the globe forming teams. It went to the Australian continent in 2014, North America in 2015, South America in 2016, Europe in 2017, Africa in 2018, and the Asian continent in 2019. Taking a fresh conceptual angle, this single-volume photo book compiles what was documented by the team of creators, primarily Mikiya Takimoto, who joined the project from the start and also went on the journeys of cars and people. The raging winds of Patagonia, the freezing cold of Alaska, a herd of elephants at sunset in Africa: individual moments in time, in front of awe-inspiring nature, when people, and even the tools of civilization created by people, are subsumed into nature. The earth is a planet. That feeling should come across as you hold each photograph, one by one, in your hands. "Traveling the continents, I’ve seen many roads, sceneries, and people. Now, when I look at this pack of photos, I realize that I was looking at the earth at the time. It's strangely wondrous how the cars start to appear more like exploration capsules moving around this planet called Earth."