Structure From A Passing Era

• Photographer
  Conrad Saya Reina
• Technical Info
  Asahi Pentax 6x7, 75mm Takumar 4.5, Tri-X exposed at 800E.I. and developed in Rodinal.
• Photo Date
  2023/10/4

I think it's my fate, destiny, or just the way I am to photograph the last vestiges of a passing era; in this case an old grain elevator or coal station on the Seibu Railroad in Japan. I chose this vantage point to show the structure in its setting, which gives it more power, but at a distance, thus giving the feeling of passing. I printed it contrasty, but still with detail in the shadow areas, to bring out the spirit of that age.

I studied photography at Pratt Institute, New York. I took photographs of trains, people, animals, and buildings at many locations, day and night, even aboard a freight train and atop a suspension bridge. I used a 35mm and a large format camera. My style is: The camera is my eyes, I photograph something just as I see it. I don’t think about composition, there is a direct link between what I feel about what I see and the photograph.