Experimental Walking Tours in Tokyo and Beyond
Journey from the known into the unknown, navigating through the city using experimental means aimed at showing another side of the urban environment. You’ll see the city in new ways, and learn some new skills you can apply to your explorations, no matter where you go.
Photo Walks and Workshops
Photo walks and workshops aimed at enhancing your experience of Japan while sharpening your skills. Workshops and walks draw on my extensive experience as a photographer, educator, and enthusiastic explorer of the Tokyo area.
The Travel Book Project
Based on a decade’s worth of personal experience and observations, I have some thoughts on how to get more out of a visit to Japan. Honestly, I’m not sure when it will be finished, because I’m figuring out how to write it as I go, with a focus on quality over speed.
Recent Essays
Dispatch № 117: Hilltop Heebie-Jeebies
On a cool spring night, I was on a mountain road in Yamanashi well after dark. I had gone out to try to photograph star
Dispatch № 116: Waiting on the Size of It
Couldn’t sleep, too much on my mind and no way to quiet it down, so I went out. After wandering with the camera for a
I’m Writing a Travel Book To Help Make Your Japan Trip Awesome
What do you get when you combine more than a decade’s worth of notes and rough drafts, expand on them, and edit down the final result? A book!
Dispatch № 114: Reflections on Narrow Streets
You don’t really realize just how many there are unless you specifically pay attention to them.
Dispatch № 113: A Self-Defeating Project and its Reboot
Let’s begin with a question. What happens when you let the aspiration and vision of a project far outstrip the resources you have to give to it?
Dispatch № 112: Documenting Silence
I don’t know what they will build here, only that it will be different, and that I want to see what I can see here while I still can.
Dispatch № 111: Local Evolution
I can think of at least a dozen nearby houses and other structures that have been demolished within the last few months.
Dispatch № 110: Blossoms
While looking for plum blossoms to photograph, I began to receive news alerts on my phone.
Dispatch № 109: Birds and Boars
Spend enough time in the woods and you develop a sense of whether it’s a bird or a deer or even a snake, and it happens before you can even turn your head to see.
Dispatch № 108: Precarity
You admonish yourself for having neglected them until you needed them and wonder why you have also for so long put up with a job in which you are forever making up for the incompetence of others…
Dispatch № 107: Same Place, Different Day
Even when the weather is bad, I go out to wander and make pictures for thirty or forty minutes. Every working day, this is my lunchtime habit, a recursive practice that is exercise for both my body and my mind.