I was on tour, playing shows at night, wandering the streets during the day.

Somewhere between soundcheck and the last bullet train back to Tokyo…

I fell in love with film.

For years, photography had been a private and personal pasion of mine but…

Over the years,
a shift happened.

At first, I began to ask friends if they were comfortable with me pulling out a camera backstage while we waited to play…

…eventually,

I started being asked.

What began as a spark of curiosity,

turned into album covers, billboards, magazines, and print work around the world.

When people see black-and-white film and call it nostalgia,

they’re misunderstanding what I’m doing.

Nostalgia isn’t about the past.

It’s about something else entirely.

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