My Photographic Vision

Photography has taught me that our sense of anything really does depend on how we choose to look at it...


Studying photography has taught me that our sense of anything really does depend on how we look at it: Lighting and perspective shape our perception of our own lives, as well as how we fit into the world. Just as one selects the position from which to capture a photograph, taking a single step to the left, to the right, forwards, or backwards can change everything.






Through my own photography, I strive to capture the beauty of the man-made world, to find order in this urban jungle called Tokyo. 


Some of my  images expose the individual's struggle to find their place in this overwrought world we have built, amid constant construction which entails destruction, new built on top of the old, mixed and jumbled together.

In Tokyo, I see modern man's struggles against nature in the pursuit of ever greater efficiency, higher productivity, logic and order over randomness and chaos, mixed together with efforts to hold on to elements of a bygone era.




The brightly illuminated city turns night into day: The ultimate manifestation of man's struggle against the constraints of nature--the cycle of night and day that would otherwise provide rhythm to our lives--a natural boundary for work and rest, activity and calm.

Here and there, I see nature overlooking man's world, waiting for the slightest opportunity to take the land back.

My images seek to capture the vertigo-inducing nature of urban landscapes that hurtle us from one location to the next with little concern other than how quickly we can reach our destination: On foot, escalators (long and short), elevated walkways, and moving sidewalks.

Enormous escalators carry commuters between subterranean levels of Shinjuku Station

Time and Space: The ghostlike nature of our momentary existence as we pass unnoticed through urban spaces, disappearing just as quickly to be replaced by another in a never-ending cycle.

Using still images to capture places in time and space that illustrate the ghostlike nature of our momentary existence, as we pass unnoticed through urban spaces, disappearing just as quickly to be replaced by another body in a never-ending cycle.