Photography, for me, is less an art form and more a means of bearing witness — a visual record of time passing, of how people live and adapt, of what gets left behind and what lingers. Living between cultures has shaped how I see. I am a product of a mashup society — Japanese by origin but deeply shaped by Western and non-Western influences I have encountered in New York. I photograph daily, mostly in black and white, mostly on 35mm film. I remain drawn to stillness within movement, to blank spaces where viewers can enter and complete the picture with their own imagination.