Three Towers on Venice Beach, 2018

Three Towers on Venice Beach, California December2018
FujiFilm X-T10 | 56mm | ƒ/5.6

The Tower on Venice Beach, 2018

The Tower on Venice Beach, California December2018
FujiFilm X-T10 | 56mm | ƒ/5.6

I couldn't sleep. 6 days before this day, which was 12 days before Christmas, 2018, I was in Rishikesh, India, drinking tea alongside the Ganga River, chasing monkeys from my hotel room and shooting portraits of colorfully robed sahdu or holy men.

A phone call and 24 hours later I was in Tokyo, and then just like that on a plane to California and Venice Beach. I was working on a project that landed me on a rooftop of a hotel in Hollywood, followed by a flight to London, then back to Tokyo before finally landing in Jakarta, which was where I was living at the time.

So yeah, the jetlag had me in her grips and I found myself awake in the early hours, sharing the beach with the birds, and the towers, and nothing else but the sound of the surf rolling in to wake the day.