Cameras and Photography spotted in Tokyo, Japan.
If you want to change your photographs, you need to change cameras. Changing cameras means that your photographs will change. A really good camera has something I suppose you might describe as its own distinctive aura.
-- Nobuyoshi Araki
I don’t think about what camera I should use that much. I just pick up the one that looks nicest on the day
-- William Eggleston
Cameras are wonderful little contraptions.
By making photographs, they are tools with which one can express their personal taste and private sensibilities. At the same time they physically exist as expressions of these same concepts. The relationship one has with their cameras affects their approach to making a picture.
People who shoot film simply do because they choose to, and the Photo Culture of Tokyo is full of film camera users. When I meet them out on the streets I ask to photograph their camera, and usually post it here the same day. All of the photos were shot with a Ricoh GRDII. I trust that this irony is not lost on anyone.
These photos are meant for sharing. By all means, re-blog away. Clicking on the images will present you with a version 1000 pixels wide to further enjoy.
I also take other kinds of photographs as well.
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Seen: The March of Saints 聖者の行進
Who: Juri Sato 佐藤 樹里
Where: Place M, Shinjuku
When: July 27 - August 2, 2020
Sato’s show revolved around encounters with Yanaka-cats and other small animals in Tokyo. Snapped on walks with her Ricoh GRD, the images were printed often larger than life- their contrast and blur working to alter the experience even more.