Writer and street photographer living in Tokyo. Born in Tokyo, grew up in Sydney, Australia before returning to Tokyo 30 years ago. Trained as a stage-lighting technician then moved into journalism. Long time interest in photography has become more serious. Recently rediscovered film and the panorama camera. Wrote the cookbook Izakaya, on Japanese pub food (Kodansha USA), with the ambition to depict cheerful Japanese food culture as part of everyday life, not something exotic. I want to convey the universal normalcy yet slight strangeness of everything here.