Joker

A person who seems to be possessed by a movie villain suddenly appears in Marunouchi, Tokyo. What is he going to do now, and where is he headed? ------ “A collection of desires”. That is how the great street snap photographer Daido Moriyama described Tokyo. With the Covid-19 disaster, becoming a new parent, and my day job, it has become difficult for me to travel far from home: this has been the driving force behind my motivation to "find the hidden beauty in everyday life”, which has now become my brand in the NFT space. One fine day, I was lucky enough to make time to shoot alone for an entire day without raising children or working at my day job. I boarded a train bound for Tokyo on a half-hearted impulse. The photographs I took featured fragments of Tokyo's architecture, streets, and busy business people as subjects and backgrounds without conscious thought. The images in this collection were shot in Marunouchi, one of Tokyo’s commercial hubs. Since I shot on a weekday, most of the people in town were at work. What left a strong impression on me as I was curating the photos were the intricate patterns and geometric shapes of the architecture, the reflections, and the fashions that stood out in the city. The combination of these elements, many of them spontaneous, resulted in images that would spark a person’s curiosity and imagination. It was like a tanka or haiku: from which multiple interpretations are often possible, with the limited sounds of a single word. If these images could trigger a sense of wonder in the viewer, I would consider myself to have succeeded in my mission as a photographer.