
This image is a photographer's dream and the health department's nightmare! As with a lot of bars in Japan smoking is still permitted and Grandfathers may be the smokiest of them all. The way the light draws on the fumes, bends and diffuses the beams made for images that feel of a time long gone. Shot from low in a nod to Orson Welles, I was hoping to channel the techniques and feel of a classic Wellesian image.