What's a perfect day for you? You know, the kind of day that fills you up completely, from which you come home just exhausted enough to sleep well, your mind flooded with good memories.
Personally, I've been travelling for 20 years now, camera in hand, searching everywhere and all the time for that perfect light, that ideal framing, that unexpected scene, that surprising moment. Sometimes spending long minutes leaning against a wall, watching people go by, a train passing over a bridge, pedestrians strolling down a street, listening to music or sharing a fascinating discussion with the person accompanying them.
Sometimes taking a train to spend just 20 minutes in a station, lost in the countryside, to immortalise an emotion felt when passing through there earlier in the day.
My whole life is devoted to light, the light that surrounds us, encompasses us, floods us. This light that makes things and people look so different, depending on whether it's a morning light, an artificial one or the subtle light of a candle. This light is the most important basis in photography, this light that we can't control in street photography, but to which we have to adapt, this light that constantly challenges us, that always surprises us. This is the perfect day that I so wish I could make a living from, because I know it so well, I've mastered it, it fulfils me, I feel safe in it and it's become my identity through all these years of travelling, crossing more than 40 countries, filling dozens of hard drives with photographic and videographic memories. Immortalising our daily lives, the people around us, observing the elegance of Japanese women in the street, the temples of Bali, the Swiss mountains or a sunset on a Thai island. That's what a perfect day is all about, and today I'd like to share with you some images taken yesterday in the Chiba region, north-east of Tokyo.
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