Dispatch № 118: Parsing

Monochrome photograph showing tall grasses backlit by the evening sun, seen from the other side of a wire fence

Ten years, four months, and twenty-nine days since I moved to Japan, and over that time, many tens of thousands of photographs made. Nearly every day, I aim a lens at something nearby and opening the shutter to project a focused image onto a receiving surface. Sometimes it’s film, though these days it’s mostly digital. […]

Dispatch № 2: Meanderlust

Night photo of a slide in a tiny neighborhood park surrounded by houses in Nerima Ward, Tokyo

Sneakers are a more powerful antidepressant than any drug. When loneliness intensifies or panic attacks cause the walls to close in, I strike out. All I need are my shoes and the knowledge that, as long as I keep moving, the shadows can’t catch up.

Dispatch № 1: Trusting the Gut

My boarding pass for the Delta flight that took me from Shanghai to Tokyo to start everything over on March 31, 2015

For thirteen years before I boarded Delta flight DL296 from Shanghai to Narita, the journey lived at the back of my mind. It was always there, calling out to me, thrusting itself into my conscious awareness through any gap it could to color my thoughts with longing.

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