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.

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.