There can be beauty and art anywhere, even in the sordid underbelly of Tokyo where the photographer Naoya Hatakeyama ventured amid rats, bats, insects, mold-covered dung, and cold, mucky water: A totally alien world just five meters below the bustling streets of Shibuya where he lives.

The first several photos show what looks like shallow underground rivers in a concrete corridor. It is pitch black except for the eerie light from the camera's flash. Then the pictures get progressively more artistic with fantastic patterns and a rainbow of colors of mold or water or waste or whatever. The photos are not captioned so you never know exactly what they depict. Occasionally, he includes a shot of rats, bats, or mosquitoes to give us some context. It's astonishing to see the beauty he has extracted from such an environment.