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rails
south island, new zealand, 2025
my first real experience of travel was japan, a big leap from western Europe. the first time i stood out. inevitably, i fell in love with the country. people, food, culture; those felt like predictable unknowns, but the ease of movement, of transportation, was a surprise for me.
Somewhere inside that motion, I became transfixed, not by destinations, but by the shapes and tones this socio-technological landscape produced along the way. Steel, light, and glass, compounded and softened by velocity into a new perspective. Precision became care made visible.
The triptych below is composed of three long exposures made during Shinkansen journeys — fragments of rails, sidewalls, and signage dissolved by speed into bands of color and gesture.