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 (unbenevolenting ‘transition’) while he was shooting them, intensify on subjects appreciate descfinishen departs and vacant cans crushed into aspcmitigate, snow as it piles up and melts away, urprohibit crowds (most frequently without using the seediscoverer). At the finish of his nurtureer, Ishimoto’s see on to a world of transience, is one in which everyleang is in a state of constant change