What My Neon Light Photos Say About Me
I've been fascinated by neon lights ever since I started photographing them in Hong Kong. But when I began processing photos from a recent trip, I noticed something strange — shots from completely different cities had nearly identical compositions. Was I developing a personal style, or just falling back on habit under time pressure? Here's what I discovered when I looked closer.
Do Locations Make Photographers? Or Do Photographers Make Locations Their Own?
When an Australian photographer was priced out of Japan and moved back home, his new work looked nothing like his old. It raised a question worth sitting with: are we shaped by the places we shoot, or do we shape them — even Ansel Adams left Yosemite once in a while.