Hi, I'm Joe. I came to photography after burning out from years in corporate project management and organizational change work. I had spent over a decade witnessing myself and others "information bet" constantly - leaping to quick categories, forcing living knowledge into rigid systems and forms, building conceptual models on top of conceptual models until we completely lost connection to our contextual reality.
Photography reconnected me with a renewed sense of "bathing in information" - the practice of sustained presence with contextual information before categorizing it. Through the camera, I rediscovered capacity I thought I'd lost: witnessing pattern, relationship, and emergence without immediately managing or containing it.
I developed jōhō-yoku (情報浴) - information bathing - as contemplative practice adapted from the Japanese tradition of shinrin-yoku (forest bathing). Just as forest bathing isn't about hiking through trees to reach a destination, information bathing isn't about processing information to rush to conclusions. It's about immersive presence with information-rich environments, letting understanding emerge through sustained attention.
The camera became my corridor device - literally holding me in threshold space between sensing and knowing. Long exposures, intentional blur, panoramic passages - these aren't stylistic choices but methodologies for staying contextual long enough for genuine reality to reveal itself.
In an age of algorithmic certainty and instant answers, we've been trained to "information bet" with everything - racing to categorization, rewarded for speed of knowing, punished for lingering in uncertainty. We've lost the capacity to information bathe - to stay with complexity, to witness before naming, to let what's actually present emerge before forcing it into categories.
This work is both practice, documentation, and invitation. Each image records what becomes visible through information bathing and invites you to practice the same capacity: staying with what is possible before leaping to what you know.
What reveals itself only appears when knowing is deliberately suspended.