“It is the first Monday of the month, I’m going to visit it, who has, in a way, become a friend. It is five in the morning when I wake up. I had prepared my bag the day before, but I still check that I have all my equipment. I drink a glass of water, it is 5:20, I leave my house. I take the metro first, then a train, a second, a third, then a bus …

I still have to walk a good half an hour before arriving at my destination. From the parking lot, I climb the steps of the mountain. It is nine o’clock, I finally see the platform from where I take my photography.
I set up my tripod, put my 4×5 camera there, I dive under the focus cloth and prepare myself to shoot.

Here I am, again, ready to draw the portrait of Mount Fuji.”

Ymy Nigris | artist