TOKYO

I photograph “something good”—ordinary moments that catch my eye while walking through Tokyo.

I photograph “something good.”

I’m not looking for anything special. I walk through the city and photograph what catches my eye.

It may be a scene that has always been in front of us, yet we have never truly seen. So ordinary that it enters our field of vision without our noticing. I’m drawn to these unremarkable moments.

What I photograph is only a small part of a moment.

I don’t know what happened before it, or what will happen after. All I can do is imagine the time that the photograph cannot show.

What each person feels when looking at a photograph is different.

A moment that feels “something good” to me may mean something else to someone else. I don’t think a photograph needs a single right answer.

A cup of coffee left beside a public phone.

Had someone been drinking it, had they forgotten it, or was it simply left there?

If someone had made a call here, whom were they calling, and what were they trying to say?

I know nothing about its owner or what happened afterward. Yet this small scene makes me imagine a part of someone’s life.

Even an ordinary scene can hold the lingering traces of someone’s life when we pause and imagine.

A photograph contains what is seen, and what is not.

I will never know the story behind it.

I simply noticed this moment and felt that it was, somehow, good.

That is the kind of photograph I make.

My previous project, SEOUL, has been featured by media in three countries and is currently stocked at six stores across five countries.