Tokyo DiariesJapan, 201735mm Film, 10 ImagesDigital Scan 1536 × 1024px
I shot this series during a month-long trip to Tokyo in 2017, my first time in Asia, and my first time using a film camera. I had a tiny Minolta point-and-shoot in my jacket pocket and no plan beyond walking, watching, and trying to take it all in.
Tokyo hit me like a sensory freight train: hyper-organized chaos, silent subway crowds, vending machines glowing at 3 a.m. These ten images come from that mental split, the calm and the overwhelm, of trying to find my place inside a living, breathing megastructure. Looking back, it’s the earliest work of mine that feels complete. Not because I knew what I was doing, but because I didn’t.
Tokyo hit me like a sensory freight train: hyper-organized chaos, silent subway crowds, vending machines glowing at 3 a.m. These ten images come from that mental split, the calm and the overwhelm, of trying to find my place inside a living, breathing megastructure. Looking back, it’s the earliest work of mine that feels complete. Not because I knew what I was doing, but because I didn’t.