We’ve all seen train spotters eagerly jotting down train times and numbers. Now there’s a new phenomenon – the drain spotter. This new breed of obsessive travels hundreds of miles to photograph manhole covers.
Enthusiasts in Japan have sparked the craze, spending weeks hunting the nation’s 6000 uniquely designed covers. The discs were produced in the 1980s as an incentive for outlying areas to receive new sewer systems. Now the hobby has been documented by Briton in a new book called Drainspotting. It features 800 manhole covers.
Writer Remo Camerota researched them for three months before driving from town to town to photograph them. His work was helped by several manhole-dedicated websites.“Sometimes we would be arguing about a wrong turn and then stumble across a beautiful manhole, one which has been previously undocumented. Finding them is the best part, the whole time it feels like a treasure hunt"
Enthusiasts in Japan have sparked the craze, spending weeks hunting the nation’s 6000 uniquely designed covers. The discs were produced in the 1980s as an incentive for outlying areas to receive new sewer systems. Now the hobby has been documented by Briton in a new book called Drainspotting. It features 800 manhole covers.
Writer Remo Camerota researched them for three months before driving from town to town to photograph them. His work was helped by several manhole-dedicated websites.“Sometimes we would be arguing about a wrong turn and then stumble across a beautiful manhole, one which has been previously undocumented. Finding them is the best part, the whole time it feels like a treasure hunt"
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