Paying attention to how someone else sees

Rinko Kawauchi is a Japanese photographer known for quiet, luminous images of everyday life.

Soft light, fleeting moments, the ordinary made tender. Her work doesn’t announce itself. It waits.

The assignment asked us to choose a photographer, study their work, and then go make images in their visual language. Not copies, but interpretations. The same quality of attention, applied to a different place. I shot in Northern Michigan: Tusen Takk, Suttons Bay, and at home. Nine pairs, each a conversation between what Kawauchi noticed and what I found in response.