Submarine Channel

‘The last Tourist’ is an online passage along hand drawn maps, texts and photographs. This website provides a personal reading of the cities that write themselves. To walk in a city without a set destination is relatively new. It was only in the twenties of the last century that the flaneur emerged, a modern day man who went drifting trough the cities that appeared. Now almost a hundred years later more than half of the world population lives in cities.

Cairo
Back in 2006, Dutch artist Jan Rothuizen traversed the streets of Cairo for months. Cairo, the urban conglomeration of 17 Million people, which after 5000 years of continuous habitation remains the greatest metropolis of Africa and the Middle East.

China
In 2004, Artist Jan Rothuizen travelled the Chinese cities of the Pearl River Delta. An urban conglomeration only slightly larger than the Dutch randstad which -if its growth rate continues- becomes a mega polis of 36 million in only 15 years.