Adrian Lee, conductor and all the gear on the shinkansen from Tokyo to Osaka.

The Japan portion of Bloodwork:Bodies is on the downslide. For the most part, photography from The Floating World is complete  and I’m preparing to head to San Jose and run the home stretch of the project’s production phase. Shooting this book has been a major focus for the last year and a half; and while I relish the day when my life and time are once again my own, the conclusion will still be bitter sweet…

I’ve been bouncing around Japan the last few days photographing more tats for the Bloodwork:Bodies book. Masa has been kind enough to do the driving. His hand are always at 2 and 12 and his eyes focused like a laser on the road ahead.

Adrian put together this cool little video from our mission out to NYC last year photographing for the upcoming Bloodwork:Bodies book. Check it out full screen!