Snow Steps, 1994
Starting in the latter half of the 1980s, Ishimoto began shooting the series Toki (Moment, 1980–2000). These pieces, which he called utsuroi (meaning ‘transition’) while he was shooting them, focus on subjects like fallen leaves and empty cans crushed into asphalt, snow as it piles up and melts away, urban crowds (most often without using the viewfinder). At the end of his career, Ishimoto’s view on to a world of transience, is one in which everything is in a state of constant change
