{"id":79024,"date":"2018-02-26T08:42:36","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T16:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=79024"},"modified":"2018-02-26T08:42:36","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T16:42:36","slug":"sean-lotman-the-best-things-happen-when-you-keep-on-keeping-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/26\/sean-lotman-the-best-things-happen-when-you-keep-on-keeping-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Lotman “The best things happen when you keep on keeping on”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week to pick up a copy of Sean Lotman’s\u00c2\u00a0Sunlanders<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0available for a limited time in the HAPTIC SHOP.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

VII.<\/h2>\n

\"\"For my last postcard for now I would like to post this image from my photo book,\u00c2\u00a0Sunlanders,\u00c2\u00a0<\/i>because it means so much to me as something emblematic of a street photography image. When I was working on the project traveling throughout Japan, I had Robert Frank’s The Americans <\/i>on my mind. Like Frank, I was a foreigner attempting to interpret my adopted country with photography. Of course, this picture is made slightly in homage to Frank’s cover shot for this book– a passenger on a bus. The light was so good that day that it created a triptych of reflections, including the brick on the passenger’s face. The passenger himself is an everyman, a man in his twenties or thirties with glasses and a flu mask, a man you might see anywhere in Japan but who has come into some poignancy with this light, a poignancy he never knew he had at that moment. I love the tricks light plays on surfaces and mirrors and the good luck the photographer has in occasionally finding and seizing it. And I photographed this on Shijo, a busy thoroughfare in Kyoto where I live, after a long day of walking back and forth, hoping to see something beautiful. The best things happen when you keep on keeping on.<\/p>\n