Suginami

Suginami is one the 23 ‘ku’ or ‘wards’ of Tokyo, an area of the city where I lived for five years. Houses and apartments there are sited tightly together; narrow streets and even narrower paths wind in around themselves in a maze of walls, fences, gates and plants that carefully delimit private space from public.

In, around and through the margins of this place I walked hours every day. Suginami is an exploration of the ways this landscape layers into the edges of a frame, the transformation of light inside the dark box of the camera, and the space of discovery between the viewfinder and the eye.

7×7 inches / 78 pages / 68 tritone photographs

photographs from Suginami may be viewed on Flickr: http://tinyurl.com/SuginamiPreview

also see: One Thing Done Two Ways: Elijah Gowin and James Luckett on Making a Book
http://tinyurl.com/1thing2ways