The photographs in this book were taken during seven trips to Tokyo between 1998 and 2018, with most made between 2016 and 2018.
 
 
 
I first came to Tokyo in 1998 on a skateboarding tour, then returned twice in 2001: first for a major citywide art exhibition called Untitled 2001, and later that year as a skateboarder. Those early visits to Tokyo were filled with walking, wandering and photographing the streets whenever I wasn't skateboarding. Then, in 2016, I returned to Tokyo as a tourist after a long absence. These more recent trips have focused more on taking photographs and observing the lives and rhythms of Tokyo's people. I like to find moments that speak to human existence, and specifically to the customs and rituals of life in Tokyo.
 
 
 
City Confessions #1 Tokyo is the first book in the City Confessions series. City Confessions will be an ongoing series of books, later packaged as a set. Each volume will present a selection of photographs from a city where I have spent considerable time working and exploring.