Kiri

A collaboration with photographer and director Samuel Hicks.

The project takes its name from the Japanese word kiri, meaning mist or fog. Photographed at twilight, the portraits capture real people in London and pair them with digitally crafted backgrounds — urban Tokyo at dusk, where neon and street light begin to take over the atmosphere.

The visual language draws on the painter Keita Morimoto's cinematic scenes of everyday Japanese city life, and the nocturnal stillness of Tod Hido and Gregory Crewdson. The AI backgrounds were built to sit within that tradition: Tokyo as a mood rather than a documentary record, atmospheric and slightly suspended in time.