Artwork title : ALLEY #001. PORT, PORTUGAL. 2024.

When I started photography and came to this country, I had a chance to see an American photographer, Paul Strand's (1890–1976) exhibition at National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C, 1990. I was very inspired and emphasized how he saw the world and photographed it. I have started to take an interest in photographing abstract images since then. His photographs not only changed my photographic vision, but also made me to consider what to accomplish in my life as a photographer. This is my newest project, "Alley" which is not only an abstract perspective of street images but also shows how much I have been influenced by and admire Paul Strand's photographs. 'Alley' is also infused with Japanese traditional aesthetics of transience and imperfection, 'WABI-SABI.'"