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One Year of Documenting the Streets of Japan

Those little alleys in the local Japanese neighbourhood’s are so rich with mundane moments, especially in the hours when nobody looks at you or when nobody cares if you take their picture, that’s the time when those mundane everyday moments turn into fantastic documentary photographs.

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Autumn Danjiri Festival in Hyogo, Japan

Beginning of October we had the Autumn Danjiri festival organized in our city in Japan. I most definitely enjoy being out here and seeing all these people from our city flooding the streets with their families. Me and my

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Little Pockets of Comfort

I spend lot of time shooting and practicing at home. And while being at home, I have some personal favourite corners or things that bring me so much joy just by looking at them. And these are not big expensive pieces of designer furniture. No, it’s little

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The birds of Mauritius

The birds in Mauritius… They are something else. I wouldn’t say they are friendly, but they are very comfortable coming pretty close to humans.

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The art of noticing

I have seen recently some “the art of noticing” reels all over social media and honestly even tho it’s a super popular trend I really enjoy watching them. I enjoy especially because it shows how people recently started noticing the joy of the mundane moments.
That’s all life is about if you ask me.

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August in Mauritius

We decided to go this year in August since the weather in Japan at that time is absolutely awful, its hot and humid and unbearable whereas in Mauritius its winter time. Winter meaning it’s around 15-25 degrees - perfect weather.

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Documenting Summer Holidays Part #2

Having a bit of a routine helped a bit to plan the next day. These series of photographs below were all taken 2 weeks prior we left for our holiday in Mauritius.

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Documenting Summer Holidays

Those second ones are usually my most favourite to photograph. The moments where she is bored out of her mind, or where she is just doing cartwheels 200 times a day, or when…