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  • Twenty Years, One City: What Tokyo Taught Me About Patience and Glass Jeff Austin
    Most photographers I know are in constant motion. New cities, new continents, new visual problems to solve. There's truth in it. Unfamiliarity forces you to look. Familiarity gives you permission to stop. But there's another, less-discussed school of practice that works in the opposite direction: stay. Return. Go back to the same streets until the strangeness burns away and something else appears in its place. [Read More]
     

Twenty Years, One City: What Tokyo Taught Me About Patience and Glass

6 June 2026 at 12:00

Black and white photo split in two: left side shows a man in a sunlit street holding a can, looking at the camera; right side shows an older man indoors hanging up a backpack, viewed in profile.

Most photographers I know are in constant motion. New cities, new continents, new visual problems to solve. There's truth in it. Unfamiliarity forces you to look. Familiarity gives you permission to stop. But there's another, less-discussed school of practice that works in the opposite direction: stay. Return. Go back to the same streets until the strangeness burns away and something else appears in its place.

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