Current Projects
Ongoing practice
Current Projects
These projects remain open, bringing photography, moving image, and sound into new combinations. Each develops independently, while images, recordings, and ideas move between them and take on new forms over time.
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Ongoing project group · 2021–present
Experiments with Sound and Vision
An ongoing group of works bringing photography, moving image, ambient sound, and original music together. It includes short sound sketches as well as longer audiovisual forms. Independent photography projects may also use sound and moving image without becoming part of the group.
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Photography · sound · moving image
Independent photography projects
Independent photography project · 2016–present
Reflection in Transit
Includes sound + vision work
A continuing series of black-and-white street photographs tracing solitude, rhythm, resilience, and fleeting human connection across New York City.
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Independent photography project · 2017–present
Tunnel Ghosts
Includes sound + vision work
Fleeting silhouettes and encounters beneath the city, developed through linked black-and-white and color studies.
Independent photography project · completed 2023
Scenes from a Pandemic
March 2020–January 2021 · Sound + vision
An audiovisual project reflecting on New York City during the lockdown and the protests that followed. Although the project is complete, its photographs, moving images, and sound continue to inform Masashi’s wider multimedia practice.
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Distinct projects, shared elements
Experiments with Sound and Vision
A framework for works created through photography, sound, and moving image.
Reflection in Transit
A photography project whose images also extend into sound and moving image.
Tunnel Ghosts
A photography project with linked black-and-white, color, and audiovisual forms.
Scenes from a Pandemic
A completed photography project developed as an audiovisual work.