Tokyo Weekender - December 2017 - January 2018

the case, but often it’s not. The composition needs to be
there to convey the story ... [allowing for] the feelings and
the emotions to come through,” he said. His craft’s growth
extends from asking himself, “How can I get a composition
that works to tell a story, rather than it just being a great
amazing impressive composition?”
Two years ago, at Gaba, one of Japan’s biggest language
teaching companies, Lukasz was still an English instructor.
For almost seven years, he had been working his way up to
management. He had finally come full circle, acquiring that
“real job” that he set out to avoid a decade earlier. He got
health care, a pension, salary, and he was working full time
as a manager. With job security he was safe. Then he quit.
Together with his friend Axel Deroubaix, who is based
in Osaka, Lukasz co-founded Eyexplore. “Think of it as a
personal trainer at a gym teaching you how to work out.
We’re like personal trainers for photography,” he says. He
takes his clients on what his company calls “photo adventures.”
It’s a class combined with a tour. Out in the field,
Lukasz critiques his students’ images and teaches them
different photographic concepts. “It isn’t formal, but we do
teach by going out and doing.” These days Lukasz actually
works seven days a week, but “I love teaching,” he says. “I
just don’t like teaching English.”
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