At a quiet football pitch in Chiba, fresh off an 8am flight from Bangkok, Ryo Shimizu discusses a photography career built on instinct rather than plan. Self-taught since elementary school, he's since shot editorial work for Marie Claire and built a reputation for portraiture that favours the unscripted moment—the shot a subject didn't know they wanted until they saw it. He details his relentless curiosity for wandering unfamiliar streets in search of forgotten histories and the documentary he made following his girlfriend's world title surf campaign, which screened to a sold-out room in Tokyo. When he turns the ocean question back on Steve, the conversation takes an unexpected turn.
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