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...
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...
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...
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...
Shortly after I started photography with a Sony Alpha 100, issued by the news agency I worked for in 2006, I began dreaming about the Minolta Alpha 7D. Back then, its price was ...
The moment I received the scans from my first roll of Harman Phoenix 200, the older version with the orange packaging, I knew something was off. Every frame was underexposed by ...
My wife and I were seen as the lucky ones when we settled in Tasmania. We called it the great escape. Imagine this: fewer than six hundred thousand people living on a land of si...
Somewhere near the heart of a no man’s land on the Tibetan Plateau, China. The place is called Lenghu, which means Cold Lake. It was cold. Even in June, under a blinding sun, I ...