I had a strange dream. I was walking through a city of gold, sheltered from most deprivations of the world, with glittering towers beneath a clear blue sky, and through houses of opulence brimming with all the treasures one could ever desire. Along its boulevards, I saw marvellous machines and flawless beings who seemed to lack nothing. But they all looked in a rush, in a frantic quest for something… Ricardo Yamamoto is a Japanese-Brazilian photographer, centering his work on the social dynamics in the changing world around him. Having spent a decade documenting the lives of fellow immigrants during his time in Japan, he relocated to Melbourne in 2015 and became fascinated with how dominant notions of success perpetuate a sense of gold rush in one of the wealthiest societies to ever exist. The works on display are the inaugural pieces of a new series that aim to explore the rumbling social anxieties that underlie our daily routines through images of bustling Melbourne streets.