The Unhurried Eye: A Film Camera and the Art of Slowing Down

Not a smarter way to take photos. A way of seeing what won't happen quite this way again.For five years, Norihiko Minato has walked the streets of Kyoto and Tokyo with a film camera — sometimes a fifteen-dollar antique, sometimes a camera built for children in 1959. What he found wasn't a new hobby. It was a slower, more attentive way to spend an ordinary day.The Unhurried Eye is a quiet, photo-illustrated meditation on what a film camera asks of you: read the light, guess the distance, wait days to see what you got. Along the way, meet the cameras themselves — the PET35, the Smena 8M, the Rollei 35 — each with its own personality and its own way of changing how you see.You don't need expensive equipment or artistic talent. You just need to slow down, now and then, and look a little more closely at the world in front of you — because it will never look quite the same again. Read more