21 December, 2025
The Lost Focus
The first roll from my recently acquired Minolta Weathermatic Dual 35 is soft, partly due to its toyish optics and partly because of its quirky AF mechanism. It is so soft that ...
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25 November, 2025
Do You Remember That Drunk Dance Thirteen Years Ago?
I’ve always felt a kind of disgust toward the trend of full automation and burst shooting. I call it spray and pray. The camera sets the exposure, detects a smile, locks on an e...
Have you ever heard of engineered engine noise, that artificial roar coming from the speakers of an EV, pretending there’s a combustion engine working inside? Or, have you seen ...
I mentioned the Lomography Instant briefly in my earlier article about the Polaroid Go, and I think it deserves its own short story. The Lomo Instant was my first instant camera...
24 October, 2025
Polaroid Go – First Shots, Surprisingly Okay!
I made a terrible mistake at the very start of my month-long U.S. trip this August. I left my X100F at home. Sure, I had a film SLR in my bag, but that meant weeks of waiting be...
20 October, 2025
Pretend Geisha – One Shot Story
This was in 2015, the same year I began the project Nansensu. A local TV celebrity came across my early work. She asked me to make something ‘darker than boudoir’, something pri...
9 October, 2025
A Short Stay Under Hong Kong Skyline
Travel photography has never been easy. Nineteen years ago, when I began working as a journalist, my editor told me that a journalist must have a perspective. Simply recording s...
22 August, 2025
The Shape of Loneliness – One Shot Story
Taken in Boston, January 2011 with the Minolta 500mm f/8 reflex on my Alpha 9. At this focal length, even ordinary things become intriguing. It’s a perspective I don’t have with...