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Jon and I will be taking photos at the same time on the same day but in mostly different cities. Currently he’s in Melbourne and I’m in London but over this period of time we’ll both be traveling. It’s a collaboration that started on his birthday (yesterday) and will end on my birthday. Do check it out!

[I love the look of wet pavements on rainy nights.]

[Yasmine from France.]

I shot this in a portrait photography session in the studio and we were mainly focused on digital cameras and studio flashes and all that. Then I decided to do a few with my film rangefinder, knowing full well that it’d be blurry and shaky because the room was too dark for my film/camera. Yet it turned out that this photo is more beautiful than the perfectly well-lit and well-posed digital shots. Sometimes it’s not about seeing beauty in imperfection, but the imperfection is the beauty itself.

“The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.” – Susan Sontag

[Asakusa Jinta playing an improvised gig in front of the Lomo Embassy. It was their first time playing in London. Of course, this had to be taken on a Lomo and in this case it was the LCA.]

I want to go to Japan. But since that’s in my after UK/EU plans, now I just want to go somewhere.

Today, Karen dropped me a text to say she’s stopped over in London on the way back to Singapore from Iceland, and that she was at Covent Garden – was I free to meet. I happened to just finish a swim then and my pool’s near Covent Garden, so it was perfect place and timing. She was only in London city for about 3 hours and we met up for fish and chips. It was such a weird feeling to just spontaneously meet her like that. It made me feel a bit displaced, almost as if I was in Singapore and spontaneously meeting familiar friends from a past life (and some which continue into the present and future).

The boundaries of time and place are beginning to blur in my life, and perhaps my memories of people.

p.s.: I love the Japanese classes that I just started taking this term.

[This is the only window in our new studio. Windows were not meant to be as skinny as lines.]