Street Art Challenge: Tokyo

Globetrotter’s August challenge has been especially fruitful for me. The topic “street art,” whatever exactly we mean by that term, fits perfectly with how I like to spend my free time: Wandering new and familiar places, camera or smartphone in hand, peering around corners and down dead-end alleys looking for the over-looked, appreciating the under-appreciated. Perfect street photography mode! At the beginning of the month, I shared snaps from the (not so) mean streets of Toronto after returning from a trip, the first in five years, to my first adopted hometown. Now I’m back in Tokyo, my second adopted hometown, and every day I try to break up my commutes in this record-breaking rice cooker summer heat and humidity by once again turning left instead of the usual right at intersections and walking the city’s labyrinth of hiways and biways with “beginner eyes.” In fact, despite the fact that I have been shooting street photography in Tokyo for at least a decade now, this month’s challenge has re-focused my attention on all the forms of street art, intentional and otherwise, that decorate this ancient, postmodern megacity. <a href="https://medium.com/globetrotters/street-art-challenge-tokyo-b2f12216d7f0">Read More</a>