Japan is Full of Ghosts

A trip through southern Japan and the islands of Kyushu and Okinawa are a reflection upon a culture that his highly technological but still deeply spiritual. Japan is an interesting country it is economically developed but get out of the city and monuments are everywhere. There are graveyards on every hillside and seemingly in the corner of every field. Each rock or tree has it's own shinto shrine and every house a place to give offerings to the ancestors. The Japanese do not let their dead go easily. As a photographer i try to condense a moment out of the continuum of experience. These moments are a meditation upon a time and a place. they must embody the spirit of that place and my impressions of it. That moment if it is to be of interest must contain so much more than any single moment can, it must allude to the universal. It must contain a fuller understanding than just what immediately appears, a juxtaposition of elements that point to a larger whole. These moments are isolated experiences, moments of contemplation. The images serve to capture a thought and a memory to distil it out of time and to fix it.