VAST EMPTY SPACE - Photo Essay Publication by
@ephemere.tokyo featured in the Ephemere Photo Journal Volume I, 2025 “The Duality of Ephemerality and Permanence”
Thank you so much
@ephemere.tokyo for featuring my work! And of course none of this would have been possible without the help of
@nikkidreaming 💙
“This project explores the fragile and impermanent nature of perception, capturing fleeting moments that often dissolve before they can fully be held. Through the lens, I examine the ways light moves through space, always transforming, always finding new paths to appear. Light becomes a symbol of presence and transition; something that is constantly shapeshifting.
The work also reflects on memory and its unstable, imperfect qualities. Just as the lens does not always render a fixed image, memory is rarely exact.
It blurs, distorts, and reshapes itself, revealing not only what was once seen, but also how it continues to be carried in consciousness. In this astigmatic space, there is a hypnotic beauty in imperfections.
Some of the photographs in this project emerge from spaces that exist in my dreams, and as I remember them, I encounter them in my waking reality. They are not tied to a particular location but rather space that is rough, shifting impressions, familiar yet undefined. These images function as liminal spaces, holding a resonance that may feel recognizable not only to me but to others. In this in-between terrain, the work seeks to evoke shared memory and imagination, inviting recognition in what feels both strange and intimately known.”
-Justin Schug
