I took this photo on my birthday in 2017, a few months prior to moving to Japan from Los Angeles. It"s a sort of digital recreation of a film photo I took 5 years earlier in Akihabara that was chosen and published by Leica in their "Leica Myself" book of self portraiture. I love that the viewer doesn"t know where to look, as so much is competing for attention and even though I"ve positioned myself dead center in the image, I"m easy to miss. I"m making this photo available for free to people who have collected any of my previous work, as a birthday gift from me to you, in 2023.