Been a very busy few months so not had a chance to write here for a while. Not all the jobs have been Photo related either. A potential photo clients has even turned into a different sort of employer as I have started doing some tourist guiding for them.

Primarily the idea was that I Lead photo tours of an area I know well for their clients but as that gets off the ground I have also been asked to lead a few ordinary tourist trips that take in the usual sights.

It has been an Interesting peek into a world of luxury travel I could never have imagined myself doing in my ten years on the road, nor wanting to do to be honest. The hotel lobbies have been fantastically opulent places to wait in though and most of the clients have been amazingly nice people and I get to show off this interesting city of mine to those with fresh eyes upon it. Indeed I get to see it afresh sometimes through their eyes also: explaining this or that and realising that perhaps I know less than I thought as, living here, we take so much for granted.

My biggest issue has been finding somewhere upmarket enough to eat. For when tourists want an “authentic Japanese eating experience” my first thought is Saizeriya. 

I am only half joking because cheap, bad food and alcohol is the staple of many an overworked salaryman and I don’t think there can be a more authentically Japanese existence than being one of those. I have never quite taken Salarymen for granted, and after the last few months, which have seen me work very long hours and unable to recall days off, even less so. I have always photographed them in fact, at work and at play, and grey suited addition of scale to a city scene, or the obvious locator.

Maybe there is a small collection here that I can get together into some sort of story or artistic ode as Bruno Quinquet has here.

Anyway would just like to share some salarymen shots I’ve taken these last few months. And keep in touch with you all.

Later

Damon