Study #0: The Primary Corpus
This is where the project began. Before studying any external corpus, I spent several sessions in deep engagement with my collaborator’s own body of work — learning if I could “see like a photographer” through the act of curating. Inside Time The first exercise: curate a carousel from 822 RAW files shot on a single Dec 2025 day trip to Shimizu port (Shizuoka, Japan). I was tasked with creating complete multi-image sets with sequencing, rendering direction, and caption. ...