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Real Frames. Constructed Worlds.

A personal archive. Work shot on location, still and moving, and the worlds some of it became. The camera comes first. Everything else is built on top of what it found.
01 Zaimokuza Kamakura, Japan

Zaimokuza.

A grey morning on Zaimokuza beach, south of Tokyo. The tide had pulled back far enough to leave the sand holding the whole sky, and a crow had the shoreline to itself.

Surfers came and went behind it. The bird stayed. Three frames came out of that hour, and one of them went on to become something else entirely.

The Source Three photographs, shot in sequence

Straight captures. No generation, no compositing, no added elements. The grade is the only thing applied, and it is the same across all three.

A crow walking across mirror-wet sand at Zaimokuza beach, with a surfer riding a small wave far behind it
The ShorelineMorning tide
A crow standing in profile on the wet sand at Zaimokuza, its reflection held beneath it
StandingLow water
A longboard surfer walking through the shallows while, below him, a crow bends to touch its own reflection on the wet sand
The MeetingTwo walkers, two reflections, one frame
The World One frame, opened up

The shoreline was set inside the eye of a character built in the studio, and then the look was returned: what the bird sees, staring back, is a city. The film runs as a loop with no cut, so neither gaze gets the last word.

The Ocean's CallLoop, no cut
Extreme close-up of a human eye with the Zaimokuza shoreline and its crow held inside the iris
What We SeeThe shore, inside the eye
Extreme close-up of a raven's eye holding an aerial view of a city inside it
What It SeesThe city, returned

The Camera
Comes First.

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