Zahyr Caan was on a\u00a0sightseeing trip to Tokyo when he took this\u00a0photograph. He was in Ginza, on his way to visit\u00a0the Gundam statue, having tried Japanese muffins for breakfast at\u00a0an exclusive restaurant. It was an\u00a0August morning, and\u00a0the temperature had already hit 38C.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe sun was very bright, meaning excellent conditions for\u00a0my style of street\u00a0photography,\u201d says\u00a0Caan, who was born in\u00a0Pakistan and now lives in Nottingham. \u201cI\u00a0like to create a\u00a0mise\u00a0en\u00a0sc\u00e8ne <\/strong>and\u00a0then\u00a0wait for a\u00a0human element to\u00a0enter the\u00a0frame.\u201d<\/p>\n skip past newsletter promotion<\/a><\/p>\n Sign up to Inside Saturday<\/p>\n The only way to get a look behind the scenes of the Saturday magazine. Sign up to get the inside story from our top writers as well as all the must-read articles and columns, delivered to your inbox every weekend.<\/p>\n Privacy Notice: <\/strong>Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. For more information see our Privacy Policy<\/a>. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy<\/a> and Terms of Service<\/a> apply.<\/p>\n after newsletter promotion<\/p>\n Caan says that he was \u201cdrawn towards the\u00a0strong shadow and\u00a0light, creating a graphic scene\u201d, but he had to wait for some\u00a0colour to arrive\u00a0and tie the image together. \u201cThis came in\u00a0the form of a\u00a0taxi,\u201d he says. \u201cThe\u00a0red\u00a0man appeared at\u00a0just the right moment\u00a0and became a\u00a0bonus, as is the nature\u00a0sometimes when\u00a0you\u2019re shooting ad hoc within an urban\u00a0environment.\u201d<\/p>\n He used an iPhone 13 Pro Max and applied minimal edits, aside from lightening and darkening adjustments. Street photography, he\u00a0adds, is a mixture of\u00a0\u201cart\u00a0and skill\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s easier than ever\u00a0now, thanks to\u00a0smartphone technology and the ability to be very\u00a0discreet. If we really start to pay attention, we see much\u00a0more than what\u00a0is\u00a0visible\u00a0at first look. I\u00a0hope people notice the colours here,\u00a0and the overall tone, all\u00a0tied together with the extended relationship between the yellow taxi and\u00a0the\u00a0red\u00a0man.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zahyr Caan was on a\u00a0sightseeing trip to Tokyo when he took this\u00a0photograph. He was in Ginza, on his…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":94188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[648,1032,1033,171,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-94187","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-design","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114919790618977383","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}