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The Ongoing Moment #photography basilimobileimages.com/2022/…

The Ongoing Moment

Amid a sea of photography books there are few that engage with the medium in an intellectually meaningful way — critical thinkers such as John Berger, Roland Barthes or Susan Sontag with their deca…

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Cherry blossom viewing in tokyo; looking at the city through rose-colored glasses #sakura #tokyo basilimobileimages.com/2022/…

Sweet caresses

The sakura trees in Tokyo are once again enjoying their time in the sun, their delicate blossoms marking yet another year. Amid the city’s cold brutalist landscape, those pale pastel blossoms — bot…

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Melbourne, the latest addition to my Wallpaper gallery of digital polaroids. #melbourne #photography #basilimobile basilimobileimages.com/2022/…
Wherever I lay my hat

Wherever I lay my hat

Home. Melbourne, Sydney, Tokyo, Osaka, Okinawa, for a few brief moments the Greek island of my ancestors, all have been and are in some sense home. Most recently, my base has been Melbourne, my ori…

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Here's to better days in 2022 #photography #blog #basilimobile basilimobileimages.com/2022/…

Reflections

With the dawn of a new year, I’ve added this blog to my site as a place for more spontaneous publishing: a place for phone snapshots and photos that don’t fit into more considered long-term project…

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Take a look back at the major news stories of 2021

Take a look back at the major news stories of 2021

Between ships stuck in the Suez canal, a riot at the US Capitol, and the 2020 Olympic Games in 2021, there were still moments of joy and a realisation that, together, we are stronger.

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illuminance: photography and the poetry of light basilimobileimages.com/2021/…

Illuminance

Photography is by its nature a medium of record, framing and preserving fragments of the world around us: from personal milestones and historically significant events to this morning’s coffee and o…

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Travel in a time of covid. basilimobileimages.com/2021/…

Bon voyage

8:57am Chatan OkinawaWaiting for the shuttle bus to Naha Airport. 2:44pm Haneda Airport TokyoArrived in Tokyo and caught another shuttle bus to Narita Airport. 4:04pm Narita Airport ChibaWaiting fo…

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Inner visions #iphone #macrophotography #halideapp basilimobileimages.com/2021/…

Inner visions

One of the benefits of updating my phone last year was getting an extra camera — well, two actually, but I never use the wide-angle camera; too much distortion for my liking. The so-called ‘telepho…

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The Poetics of Space | New post now published #japan #photography basilimobileimages.com/2021/…
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Silence: at the beach in Okinawa #japan #photography #pandemic #beach basilimobileimages.com/2021/…

Silence

The beach and the sights and sounds of summer. Swimwear: vibrant daubs of color on the sun-bleached sands. Umbrellas and beach tents scattered throughout. In the water, gorgeous inflatables: rings …

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Terminal #hanedaairport #tokyo basilimobileimages.com/2021/…
Postcard from Tokyo #photos #tokyo #digital polaroids basilimobileimages.com/2021/…

Postcard from Tokyo

Tokyo. Summer. Covid waves. The Olympics. Obon. This strange brew gives the city a bittersweet flavor. Oppressive summer days are tempered by unexpected tropic-like rain storms or punctuated by day…

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City lights #tokyo #night #streets basilimobileimages.com/2021/…

City lights

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Seeing red #tokyo #coca-cola basilimobileimages.com/2021/…
Installations basilimobileimages.com/2021/…
Inside Out #tokyo #summer #street basilimobileimages.com/2021/…
Olympiad #tokyo basilimobileimages.com/2021/…

Olympiad

A day after Brazil defeated Germany in the opening round of the mens’ Olympic football tournament, the opening ceremony of the Games of the Thirty-second Olympiad got under way. You’d imagine it wo…

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Tokyo Redux basilimobileimages.com/2021/…

Tokyo Redux

Look at the breadth of this city, the height of its buildings, the speed of its trains and the wealth of its people. This city that was once ash, that was then wood, fields of ash and forests of wo…

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Summer Heat Okinawa basilimobileimages.com/2021/…

Heat

O wind, rend open the heat,cut apart the heat,rend it to tatters. Fruit cannot dropthrough this thick air—fruit cannot fall into heatthat presses up and bluntsthe points of pearsand rounds the grap…

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Okinawan memories #okinawa #photography basilimobileimages.com/2021/…

Memories

It’s only been ten months, yet it feels like…maybe not a lifetime, but it certainly feels like I’ve lived a life here. New routines were formed, friendships made, regular haunts frequented, notable…

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