I shot this photo during a day I was doing street fashion shots from Shibuya, Japan.
Sometimes it’s not just the person that I want to shoot, it’s the person and the environment.
Why I enjoy this photo is because unlike other countries of street fashion where they look at the camera, in Japan, many of them don’t unless you approach them to take a photo.
This was pure street photo shots that I was taking for a publication that I wanted to showcase what people were wearing in Shibuya at the time and while this woman was walking with her friend, she reacted with a smile while looking towards the camera.
Also, it captures the busy Udagawacho, Shibuya location. A location that if you visit one year, it will be different the next. For example, the Sunkus building that I shot there is now gone and became a Sketchers building. Right across the street is the Berksha building which was white and fluorescent green and is now white and dark red.
That’s what I love about Google Maps that it captures the look of the city each year, in fact, it’s one places in Japan that Google has to keep taking photos of because it changes so much. And post-pandemic, with many shops closing, it becomes more evident.
