For Takashi Homma, being a contemporary photographer is very different from being a photographer.
"Most Japanese people don't understand what contemporary photography is," he says, explaining how he thinks photography comes with preconceptions that have kept it rigid as a medium. His first solo exhibition, "Takashi Homma: New Documentary" at Tokyo Opera City Gallery, aims to break some of those preconceptions with its mix of images, silk-screen prints and paintings — a combination of mediums vastly different from his early days as a magazine fashion photographer in London.
What was working in London like?