Tokyo Parrots | Yoshinori Mizutani | Amana 2014 Chris Killip a quiet sense of melancholy

a quiet sense of melancholy pervades and seems to hint at a deeper undercurrent of Nordic angst

I was sweeping grass in the cowshed when a colleague beckoned to me from a distance

or swallow you up completely once you emerge from this illusory sanctuary"

The process of pouring iron sand and charcoal into a furnace to produce Tamahagane (precious steel)

I discovered that the biggest nest was in a ginkgo tree on the Tokyo institute of Technology campus in Ookayama

Tokyo Parrots | Yoshinori Mizutani | Amana 2014 Chris Killip a quiet sense of melancholy"When I saw hundreds of parakeets swarming the sky, I was struck by fear. I felt as if Id walked into the Alfred Hitchcock film The Birds. Every morning, flocks of several parakeets each would fly to the elm tree near my home in Tokyos Setagaya ward. I watched these flocks arrive daily. Eventually, more and more flocks showed until finally, this strange scene of hundreds of parakeets appeared. The parakeets had overly bright, lime green wings. These