Between the Steps, Paused
Photographer
Rayner Sidjaya
Country
Indonesia
Description
Photographed during the 2025 Sanja Matsuri in Asakusa, this moment emerged between movement and stillness. Amid the noise and celebration, her expression held something quieter—focused, grounded, almost suspended in time. In the blur of the procession, it was not the spectacle that stayed with me, but this fleeting gesture of presence. A fragment, incomplete, yet deeply resonant.
Short Bio
Rayner Edrick Sidjaya is a native Indonesian photographer based in Japan. Since moving there eight years ago, his work has focused on fleeting, fragmentary moments that reflect the experience of living between cultures. Through quiet observations of light, space, and gesture, he explores themes of memory, distance, and the beauty of the incomplete.