Photography

I became fascinated by photography in 2007–2008 when I first went to Japan on a working holiday visa. As you can see from most of the photos, they are static images of what I would call urban or industrial scenery, stark and cold, but with an emphasis on beautiful colours and shapes.

I never pursued it past the level of amateur, but there was something absolutely fascinating about travelling, wandering around and exploring new places, and figuring out the best composition and then chasing the perfect light (often coming back to a location many times just to try and get it right).

Most of these photos were taken around that period, which is a period of about 8 or 9 months. There are some from 2015 when I came back to Japan and I got into it again, but it was never quite the same. Perhaps that’s a reflection of the changes I underwent as a person, or the way I related to Japan after having studied the language for a much longer time and become much more intimate with the culture and how things work.

Nowadays I mostly take photos with my iPhone. Well, mostly videos, actually. I think photos are fast becoming an old-fashioned medium, with storage and ubiquitous high-quality video cameras just so cheap.