A series of black and white photography created while taking pictures through the window of the train as it passes by countrysides, cities and towns in Japan. 2024-25.

After processing the black and white photos in this gallery and seeing them all together, I decided that they should be seen as a series and not mixed in with my other Japan photos.

As I was editing one of the images, I noticed some strange looking white shapes on the side of a building. I’m like, “what is that?”. After zooming in on the photo, I realized it was sunlight reflecting off the glass of the train’s windows. These spotlights reminded me of individual frames from a roll of 35mm movie film. Then I thought, “the windows look like motion picture frames being projected onto the buildings”. How Ironic and fitting for a title for this photographic series.

In this series I experiment with capturing the geometry and design of the architecture by simplifying the color images into well defined black and white high contrast photos. This way the viewer can appreciate all the lines, shapes, textures and patterns as they’re frozen in time by the camera and its lens. I found that there is a geometric visual rhythm created by repeating lines, shapes and forms in a lot of the photos in this series.

Normally these cityscapes would buzz by your window and you would barely have time to see it. It reminded me that we get going so fast sometimes in our lives and we rarely stop and appreciate how beautiful life really is.

The train is moving, the people and cars outside the window are moving, the light is moving and time is changing. Never to be the same again.  A blink of an eye and it will pass you by. Carpe diem! その日を摘め that means you too Godzilla ゴジラ!