Photography — Studies
Of trials & errors
Experimental studies help in furthering my take on photography. Whether it’s through manual cut-paste or via digital manipulation, and even by involving viewers in the visual conversation, photography should always be open-ended and all-ways imaginative.
Fabrications
2021 — present
Handmade collages have always struck my liking. Creating collages out of my own photographs allows me to re-envision and reinvent each scene and each memory. Through constantly experimenting, I open new portals: warped and almost dreamlike. It's like therapy. Or hypnosis, even.
In making collages out of my own photographs, I de/reconstruct new stories that couldn’t be created out of taking pictures alone: in some instances, tales need more imagination to be told.
Subtle Titles
2021 — present
A photo-based mini series that intentionally imitates film stills with one-liner questions that are often kept and left unsaid.
In questioning life, one-liners are sometimes enough. I love the feeling of being left to ponder: as if there’s so much more to explore and forlorn.
Monowalk
2020 — present
Would you still consider this street photography?
At first, this was my question. But after doing it a bunch of times — allowing my viewers to take screenshots while I roam around Tokyo, or elsewhere, for about an hour — it turned out that my way to relieve stress through live photowalks is more therapeutic for others, albeit in monochrome.
