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The Ransom Ltd. team and I have been working nonstop to make this project materialize and I am pleased to finally announce that Momo Tokyo will be my first published book and is now available for pre-order!

I had never been to Japan before the two weeks I spent in Tokyo photographing the content for this book. The idea came as an afterthought–a small personal project to keep me occupied in a city I didn’t know–but quickly became the purpose of my stay. Over the course of 12 days, I carried the peach-colored (”momo” in Japanese) backdrop and (heavy) c-stand with me on foot for 100 miles. The backdrop became like a character to me in its own right and I soon felt that I was simply taking snapshots of a friend as it helped to contextualize my vignettes of the city. This book was both literally and figuratively a labor of love and I could not be more excited to share it with you.

Momo Tokyo is not only an exercise in contextualizing my first experiences with Japanese culture but also stands as a testament to the idiom, “a picture is worth a thousand words.” Every image from this project has a unique story as to how, where, and why I photographed the backdrop as well as the difficulties I encountered in doing so. As special thanks for pre-ordering the book you will receive a print from the project with a handwritten note detailing the story behind the photograph. These narratives will give the reader an inside look into what it was like to experience Japan for the first time and why these photographs are so meaningful to me. Pre-Orders for Momo Tokyo are available now!

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