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Hello world! Welcome video + the story behind JOURNAL.

Hello dear readers!

I’m thrilled to finally be able to share JOURNAL with all of you — my new photography magazine as memoir — including photo essays, written articles, and behind-the-scenes ways of working. It is 86 pages, 120+ photos, 100% designed and produced by me — a true labor of love. I hope you enjoy it.

This issue No. 1 includes:

• From Fuji to Üetli: Mountains. Trains. Rivers. Watches. Zen and Ruhe.
  An outsider’s surrealist lens on island nations.

• Interiorities: Finding home in the sanctuary of solitude and rituals.

• The Indecisive Moment: Street Photography & AI: Of rhythms and algorithms.

• E/Motion: Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

• From Madame to Mademoiselle: Paris as an infinity mirror in my life.

• Yamanote Rain: 30 stops, 30 shots. An experiment in getting out of my own way.

• Komorebi 木漏れ日: Sunlight through leaves or, how to make a film in one day.

Available today worldwide from me directly (Collector Edition | Limited Edition of 10 ) and on Amazon, coming soon on Blurb.

Excerpt: Hello world.

Once upon a time…

I dreamed of growing up to work in book publishing in New York City — which somewhere along the way became website publishing in San Francisco. And now, even after decades in the technology industry as a designer, my work never truly feels real until I see it in print.

I’ve kept journals since I was 6 years old and have been taking photos about as long. These practices have been my art, my craft, my joy, my sanity, my guiding light — and what have made me the person I am today.

I am grateful for the digital blessings of instant photographs, desktop publishing, and global community. And I want to shift the balance more into the physical realm. We ourselves remain in it, after all — updating the firmware here and there.

To that end, I am jumping into the loving arms of my first love: books. I make photobooks and zines, and teach others how to make them. I founded and publish under my own imprint LIMINART, where I soon want to welcome other artists.

The past year has been one of wild transition and transformation for me,
as an artist and as a human. I process and evolve through my work and constant experimentation.

Curiosity is everything.

I think through writing and taking pictures. It’s how I make sense of my life
to myself and others. How I connect the dots and live to see another day. This ephemera — these bits and pieces of art — are always everywhere. Notebooks, SD cards, Instagram, text messages, or just floating in my head.

Journal is my new home for my most meaningful photographs and the stories behind them. I hope you find something interesting, joyful, restful,
or inspiring here.

Thank you for joining me.

Welcome to the first issue of Journal.