TOMO MORI

personal photography journal. places i've been and things i found. photos all taken by me.

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London 2015

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Work in progress // London 2015

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steam colour #13, #14, #15 // Stockholm 2014

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steam colour #3, #4, #5 // Stockholm 2014

Taking a break from black and white and Oxford of 2008… This a little series I did last year in Stockholm.

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Indeed // Oxford 2008

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Wait I can explain // Oxford 2008

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:-) // Oxford 2008

A slice of almost life.

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waiting // Oxford 2008

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I’m sure the fish had a name // Oxford 2008

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Winter sky // Oxford 2008 

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Jo // Oxford 2008 

The Royal Oak.

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flare // Oxford 2008 

Something changed and it’s never the same.

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Oxford 2008

‘On a warm night in June/I went to the lake, got on all fours/and drank like an animal’       

- Mark Strand

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View from Magdalen Bridge  // Oxford 2008

It snowed in the winter of 2008. 

Though it didn’t snow as much as it did later in 2010 - the year the Heathrow became temporarily incapacitated because of it and I spent Christmas in a nearly empty student hall - I remember the snow in January 2008 fondly. 

That was when I started my PhD, or as they always called it there, a DPhil. It was already my second year in Oxford. But I can’t remember if it snowed in 2007. Probably I didn’t really care.

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Onto Magdalen Bridge // Oxford 2008

By all means Oxford is not a big city, in that it is really more of a town, but it does extend beyond the compound of old colleges and university buildings. I lived in Iffley/Cowley area most of my time there, which is south/east of the centre. 

Past Magdalen College and the big roundabout at the end of Magdalen Bridge, you’ll notice the landscape begins to change quickly.

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Footpath over a creek // Oxford 2008

Over Christmas last year, I found a stash of old negatives back from circa 2008, that I shot in Oxford. I then made low resolution batch scans on my Epson flatbed. 

I didn’t even apply sharpening to speed up the process, as my primary motivation was to see the images quickly. The crazy part was, after that, I subsequently forgot about those files for one reason or the other. 

That was, well, until now. It may be the nostalgia speaking, but I think I rather like the look of some of them. 

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Long time ago // Oxford 2008

Really, a long time ago.