Photography · Eye

Looking, on purpose.

The camera is an excuse to be where I already am. — J.A., notebook

I started carrying a camera as a way to make myself stop scrolling. Eight years later it is the practice I trust most for presence — more reliable than meditation, more honest than journaling. A small selection lives here. The full archive is offsite.

Selection

Six frames I'm putting forward, picked from the archive above. Filling in slowly.

A graveyard surrounded by trees and temple roofs, seen from above amid a dense Tokyo cityscape.
Tokyo, from above.
A woman with a ponytail walks through the vermilion Torii gates at Fushimi Inari, centered between the columns.
Fushimi Inari, centred.
A gnarled cypress tree leaning over a misty coastal path, in black and white.
Near Point Reyes.
A stone lantern on a side path at Fushimi Inari, framed by leaves.
Lantern, side path.
Dense bamboo stalks filling the frame at a Kyoto bamboo forest, with dry grass at the base.
Bamboo grove, Kyoto.
A coral sunset with speckled clouds, framed by silhouetted trees on either side.
Sunset, speckled clouds.
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