My urban photography, then, has emerged from two highly-realist traditions: the practice of kado [the way of poetry] and Henri Cartier-Bresson’s street photography. I took up photography because a lens can capture what a haiku cannot - an almost-exact replica of what I am seeing when I experience a “haiku moment.”

For me, the way of photography never ceases.

an xiao

Photographs have always captured split-second moments in time, yet An Xiao’s photography is something extra special in that regard.

empty easel

 

Stunning images of dark quiet spaces.

neil aitken, editor, boxcar poetry review