Nakameguro in Tokyo’s Meguro Ward is probably one of the best-known of cherry-blossom locations in Tokyo. It can get extraordinarily busy on the weekends so, typically, I do photowalks there mid-week to avoid the worst of the crowds. Lots of people makes for great shooting opportunities too. But, when one is walking with a group of people, the potential for getting terminally split-up from each other is never far away. So, mid-week it is for the organised walks; weekends for the solo shooting.
This year I walked the area with a few of my regular students – including Gwenny Ruiz, who was in town again from Amsterdam. Our framework for the walk was to create some multiple-image canvases – diptychs and triptychs – which would tell a story of some aspect of the area and the season in one eye-ful.
Continue reading the story over at JAPANORAMA.
