Six Days in Tokyo | Travels with the X-Pro2 | Patrick La Roque
I’m home. The cold, the snow…winter in all its frigid glory. Takes some getting used to, even after just a single week of travels. Because it quickly becomes an addiction—travelling, I mean. Being immersed in a constant flow of new sensations, sights and sounds vying for attention…it’s easy to come down hard once it’s all over and normalcy has reclaimed lost ground, to become disenchanted with mundanity, eyes losing focus as we dream of distant worlds. I need to remember that. I need to keep on seeing. Tokyo was an incredible experience and I now have a serious crush. I’ve been going through my images—there’s a lot of ‚em—slowly realizing this infatuation stems from this city allowing me to shoot images I’ve always wanted to shoot . Needed to, actually—as if they’d always been there, waiting for me to catch up. It’s hard to explain because it’s not just subject matter I’m talking about…it’s setting, mood, noise and silence. Chaos and symmetry. All of it together in one giant perfect storm of sensory assault. Starting Monday I’ll be posting a new series entitled Six Days in Tokyo, something similar to what I’ve done in the past, going all the way back to France in 2011—a travel journal in hindsight……
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