Kenya Sugai's Ten-Year Archive of Tokyo's Crude Coincidences

Kenya Sugai has spent more than ten years photographing the overlooked disorder of Tokyo streets: spills, shadows, broken things, and stray reflections, all cataloged year by year in a section of his website called 'Portfolio A.' His current shooting method pairs direct strobe with tight, abrupt cropping, a style he developed after finding the traditional snapshot too passive. Aperture traces his path from Fukuoka drifter to London film student to street photographer shaped by Martin Parr, William Eggleston, and the New Color Photography movement.