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 trails over nearby peaks, but ended up just taking a walk, as there was a fog settling over everything that obscured the view. There were no street lights within a […]
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 bit, I sat on a park bench in the dark, well after midnight. At 2:05 AM, an earthquake began. When an earthquake hits, the first thing to enter my mind […]
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!
Yes, this project is still live! An announcement.
First, this is still a live project, just one that is temporarily on hold. I believe in this concept, but at the moment, life has gotten in the way. This autumn, my partner and I will move to a new apartment in a different city in the Tokyo area. This will be a good thing […]
Dispatch № 115: Five Shorts
Five shorts, with images, in a new format I’m playing with
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.