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“the worst thing an artist can do is talk about their work”
-Robert Frank

“if it is not street photo, snap shoot, leica photo and travel photo, how would you define your photography? maybe you dont want to creat any category for your photography??
then what it is?
what interests you the most? ”
-fake jamacian (Actually Japanese) girl

The most interesting thing is the transformation of the world in photography, not the refinement of it.

You are taking a segment of life- which is three dimensional and flows in real time- and taking from that a depiction of how the camera saw it all and putting that image on paper. The relationships that are created, the forms they make, they help enunciate the possible meanings of the image.

My photographs are not about Japan, nor are they about my camera or traveling. In a sense they are products of my travel, and being in Japan. Of course they are certainly a product of my camera.
They are the results of my interests about Photography.This is only a beginning. I try to be constantly looking, photographing and struggling with it all. As long as photographs are about Questions and not Answers, I am excited.

There was an quote on the wall in the University of Nebraska’s photo room that said (and I forgot who said it):
“You will never know if you are going to be good or not. What’s left? What’s left is work.”

asakusa

chinatown

kitasenju

kamakura1

kamakura2

kamakura3

kamakura daibutsu

kamakura daibutsu2

kyoko and animal

kyoko and maiko

ofuna

sensouji

much more to come.

past work can be seen here.

This morning started off with a welcome-back ceremony for the jr. high students. It was followed by an official Weights and Measures event, with each and every one of the students being weighed and measured by the school nurse and her assistants. To leave the gym each student had to pass through a gauntlet of eagle-eyed teachers who checked for raised skirts (on the girls) and unkempt hair (on the guys). The boys whose hair was deemed too long were (mostly) literally grabbed by the teachers before they could escape through the door and made to sit on the floor along with the other follicle offenders. This made for some pretty funny instances- One boy would get caught and the subsequent laughter of his friend behind him was then interrupted by a tug on his arm as he too was sent in to the pile. After all of the other kids left the gym the boys were given a firm talking to as their homeroom teachers were taking down names. They have until next Wednesday to fall in line.
Once they were dismissed several of the 3rd year guys (for whom long hair is the result of fashion, not a by product of laziness like it is with the 12 year olds) jumped up and encircled Matsumoto Sensei and pointed out the fact that his current haircut does not meet the School-Standards either. Come to think of it, neither does the hairstyle of the prime minister.

you can see him here.