Nicolas Tei

The Room Was Not Dark.

Two young children walking away across a paved lot, past a traffic cone, in front of a plastered building with small square windows and an old tiled-roof wall; a bicycle leans against a fence.
Bare tangled branches partly obscuring two weathered stone busts in overgrown bushes.
A framed portrait of a child in kimono propped on black garbage bags and bedding stacked against a tiled wall.
Close-up of wild grass blades and small white flowers overlapping in different directions.
A car window reflecting an angled greenhouse roof and a toy stegosaurus on a shelf inside.
A woman seen from behind, arms raised, standing between a stone lantern and a stacked-stone shrine marker strung with a shimenawa rope.
A person under an umbrella carrying a child on their back, alone on a wet street between apartment buildings.
A small bird beside a bush growing from a fallen-petal-covered planter, an empty playground behind.
A cat glimpsed through dense bushes and a wire fence beside a wooden utility pole.
A dark, bear-like animal climbing over pitted white rock formations in a zoo enclosure, water-stained walls and barred openings behind.
Panoramic close-up of undergrowth, one side overexposed to near white, the other dark.
Panoramic shot of two children running across sunlit pavement cut by a band of shadow, bicycles parked beside a building.
Black-and-white prints laid out on a wooden table beside a vintage Pentax Espio Mini film camera and two contact-print strips.