Tiểu luận — Practice-Based Structural Essay
Một hình thức để mô tả trực giác — những điều ta làm “một cách tự nhiên” — như tri thức được hình thành từ thực hành.
Tiểu luận được xuất bản bằng tiếng Anh và tiếng Nhật.
Series Statement
Practice-Based Structural Essay is an attempt to give structure to forms of practice-based knowledge that are difficult to formalize academically, rather than leaving such knowledge as mere intuition.
Practice-Based Structural Essay is a small series of essays that describes, as structure, the sensations and judgments that recur in practice — instead of leaving them as intuition.
Asked on site “why did you do that?”, we often cannot explain, and answer “somehow.” Yet behind that word, there is often a reliable structure of judgment, absorbed into the body through years of practice.
Neither an academic paper nor a diary, the series began as a format of its own for describing practice-based knowledge. It may also offer a small starting point for thinking about the “somehow” in your own everyday life.
01 · 2026
A Structural Essay on Pre-Capture Judgment in Photographic Practice
Has photography already begun before the photograph is taken?
This essay looks at the judgments that take shape in the photographer before the shutter is released. Distance, light, movement, silence, the density of a field, the decision to photograph or not — it is an attempt to describe, as practice-based knowledge, the sensations that recur at the scene of photographing.
Contents
“The shutter is not the starting point. It is the point at which a judgment already in formation becomes temporarily fixed.”From the Conclusion
