Shindo (震度) does not measure the energy of an earthquake, like magnitude does, but rather how it is felt: the tremor that runs through the body, makes objects vibrate, and shakes houses. It is an immediate, sensitive, human measure. In this project, I take it as a metaphor for my own internal seismic shifts: emotions, memories, and thoughts that stir and transform the way I perceive the world.
During a journey through the Tokyo–Kyoto–Kanazawa triangle, the images emerge shaken, seeking to provoke that sense of instability—of an apparent loss of control in the face of a floating world, bathed in surface light, massified, trampled, in the pursuit of a spiritual appearance. These vibrations determine how the images are constructed and the intensity with which they are perceived. Every gesture, every gaze, every silence reflects how our decisions activate the entropic lever of the world.
Shindo records these inner waves, how what is hidden conditions what is lived. Photography is born as if it were the aftershock of an earthquake manifesting itself. In this way, I also present a fragment of contemporary Japanese society, without losing sight of the fact that it remains a personal and foreign perspective—yet one that resonates beyond its borders.
Shindo (震度) takes its name from a lived experience. While in Tokyo, on the twelfth floor of a building, I felt an earthquake run through my body. The structure swayed as if made of rubber. For a few seconds, gravity seemed uncertain, and perception shifted. That physical sensation—immediate, intimate, impossible to ignore—became the starting point of this work.
