Coincidence can shape people's lives in many ways. Ask Mark Hammond, and he will certainly agree.
Indeed, chance seems to have pushed his life and artistic activity into unpredictable directions. While attending college in the United States, he was more interested in broadcast journalism and video production than photography. "I think there was a school newspaper that had a darkroom, but I was too busy getting drunk and chasing girls to hang out with geeks who liked to write and take pictures," he says.
Hammond has spent almost 20 years capturing the beauties of his adopted home of Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, with his camera.