Les Goudes, Marseille, France

It is that time of year again. For those of you who are regular readers of this blog, you'll know that every year around this time I go on a snowboarding/ski trip with groups of friends that I went to grad school with and/or grew up with. We have been doing this for a decade now. Last year we were in Jackson, Wyoming (my favorite place so far). And this year we are in Austria. Here is a photo that I took -- of paradise -- this afternoon:

I'm not sure there's anything to say after a photo like this. So I'll leave it at that. See you tomorrow.

Last summer, photographer Parker Woods spent two weeks walking over 100 miles in Tokyo with a peach-colored (”momo” in Japanese) backdrop and a metal c-stand. He used this accessory to “contextualize his first encounter with Japanese culture.”

In some cases, it functions as you would expect: as a backdrop for the new people that he encountered along his walking journey. 

But in other cases, the backdrop is simply inserted into the urban environment. Sometimes rolled up amongst a pile of metal tubes. And sometimes fully erected in the middle of a busy road.

This is an interesting photography project based in one of my favorite cities in the world, and so I wanted to share it on the blog. All of his photos were shot on Kodak film. It’s also giving me some ideas for my own photos.

If you’d like to buy a copy of the book ($40), you can do that here. There’s a limited run of only 250 copies. If you’d like to read a bit more about the project (and see a few additional photos), you can do that here on VSCO.

Image: Parker Woods