Visual Notes 004
This season, this hour.
After years of walking around Tokyo, I have come to remember the places where light falls.
From the gaps between Tokyo’s buildings of different heights, light sometimes falls on a single spot.
For example, when I’m walking with my wife on a sunny day. Even while we talk, I keep looking around. “Light is hitting that spot,” I think, and I check my watch and remember the time.
And then I return to that spot. It might be the next day. It might be the next year.
This light only appears in this season, at this hour. The height and angle of the buildings match the path of the sun for only a few days each year.
People’s lives appear in the light.
Visual Notes is a series that will run alongside my regular posts—more photographs, fewer words.
This is such a good example of observation becoming style. Most people walk through cities looking for landmarks. Photographers like this end up memorizing how light moves instead.
These are brilliant!