Monochrome Illustration

Black and white photograph in the style of Daido Moriyama and the Provoke era — are, bure, boke: grainy, blurry, out of focus. An elderly clockmaker with white hair, caught hunched over his workbench repairing a clock movement in a cramped repair shop. Harsh crushed blacks and blown-out highlights from the fluorescent tube above, extreme film grain, tilted snapshot framing, slight motion blur on his hands, the wall of clocks dissolving into gritty texture. Raw high-contrast street photography, printed dark and rough, Japanese postwar photography aesthetic, unsentimental and visceral.