This book, my first, was also my first major project shot solely with polaroid film. Amsterdam is a cold city in March. Because of this many the images developed in quite an odd manner. There are frozen fingerprints burned into the edges of the images. The colors are skewed. These problems came together in a remarkable way. Amsterdam may be stained, but it is also quite beautiful.

when i traveled to tokyo in July of 2006 i brought several cameras with me. i had both digital and film, medium format, 35mm, and 3 polaroid cameras. after a few days of exploring i found that i was only shooting with the polaroid. maybe it was all of the high-tech electronic devices that i saw on a daily basis that made me want to use an old outdated method of documenting the city. maybe it was the fast pace and bright lights that screamed to be captured and slowed down. whatever it was, the polaroid image, in its self-contained majesty, truly captured the essence of tokyo.