ŌMAGATOKI
Ōmagatoki is written 逢魔時, the hour of meeting spirits. A photo series about the invisible threshold between worlds, implied wherever two opposites share a frame. Shot on foot, in Japan.
The word names the moment at dusk when familiar streets stop being familiar. But that moment does not belong to the clock. It happens at noon in a shopping arcade and at midnight outside a convenience store. This series looks for it wherever it opens. The doorways and tunnel mouths are only the visible half. The subject is the line between them, which no photograph can hold.
These frames were made on foot in Japan, over most of a year, at every hour. No lights, no setups. Whatever the threshold gave.
Every frame holds two sides. Still against moving, lit against dark, the living against the waiting. The crossing itself is never in the picture. That part is yours.