i stood alone in the darkness. light does not illuminate. it only looks for things to illuminate. and i had never been found by the light. i would always be in darkness

“I went outside. The rain had stopped. 
The air, washed by the rain, was serene, and the waves sounded closer than usual. 
The full moon shone like a pearl in the night sky.
The moonlight made it look as if all the houses had sunk to the bottom of a lake. 
The road stretched ahead, white. 
It was the road that led to Migitahama.
A gust of wind and the petals from a wild cherry tree went dancing, white against the darkness, and I remembered then that the cherry trees here blossomed two or three weeks later than in Tokyo.
The waves roared.
I stood alone in the darkness. 
Light does not illuminate. 
It only looks for things to illuminate. 
And I had never been found by the light. 
I would always be in darkness—”

Yū Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station

all images were shot on a fuji x-pro 2 with a fujinon 27mm f2.8 and a leica mp with a zeiss 35mm biogon f.2.

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