Photography

Lucid Communication and [ m2c ] are the alter egos of Jacob Schere. A self styled Freewalking Image Gathering Expressionista he is known for his photographic discovery of unnoticed beauty in the everyday world. Whether its Tokyo, NYC or Paris Jacob’s photographs reveal beauty in the haunted concrete fluorescent madhouse that is the modern city.

permanent collection

If you are a first time visitor to the lucid communication site this is where your journey should begin. It represents the finest images from various series, cameras and techniques. Exploring the possibilites with creating photographic images. Strong compositions, lusicious colors, engaging themes is a mission in Jacob’s images.

Simple Play: Cardboard and Imagination Writer Doing What they Do Best, Graff KRS ONE in Studio with Headphones 20s kasai14 lost05 lost09 NYC Legs, and Icees Swirl of Balls jase + krs ONE 01 festival22 Buy NYC The End of the Lane, for Western window02 CLOSED, 2001 NYC no w more hate, 2002 NYC talibanamerica, 2001 NYC night15 night05 night02 Palms of my Youth miami01 Man vs Everglades firefighters Relationship in a Teacup

lost and found

The lost and found series leads the viewer into the Japanese practice way of placing lost objects in such a fashion that the owner of the items will be able to find them again. The objects are tenderly placed on a fence, a wall , or any other location and patiently await the owner to reclaim them. These items run from the mundane [socks] to the freakish [stuffed alligator]. By photographing these items, I let the viewer peek into the lives of ordinary Japanese citizens. There are some objects that are so ordinary it’s a wonder why someone would go through the trouble of placing them with care on a fence. I have witnessed or photographed hundreds of “Lost in Tokyo” happenings. The brightly colored objects contrast with the often cold concrete drabness of the environment where they have been lost and found. There is a unique communicable interaction between the humans who lost the objects, the ‘hero humans” who found them, and then myself, who finds them with my lens. A kindness that most people think is disappearing from the planet lives and breathes In the urban landscape of Tokyo.

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holga

Here I explore the wonderful world of the Holga, the “Little Plastic Camera from China that Could.”?? I works with the philosophy that it is the mind of the artist working in conjunction with technology, or lack of technology, that makes for a great image. The Holga is as basic as a camera gets. Each camera has unique “issues” with it’s lens that works perfectly with my own love of happy accidents.

miami01 OR8s Relationship in a Teacup OR4s tokyo02 Cut up Miami KRS ONE the Teacha, Teachin' Palms of my Youth Man vs Everglades Simple Play: Cardboard and Imagination Jogging Towards Lady Liberty l_ffcd25619b600cdc6a494fb4b6c570dd como-cover walker-03s Walker, all SOUL Big Mama, Hip Hop Queen holga20 holga27 Intersection of Cherry Love is Simple , Holga 21 holga25 holga23 Tear Down the Wall ysin02 ysin01 ysin03 ysin04 ysin05 ysin06 DOUBLE02fl Miami, Home Holga Eye Writer Doing What they Do Best, Graff Double Break Dance Heaven Boy, Steps, Paris, Life Where We All End Up, Paris Catacombe One Handed Hand Stand #7 Backalley, paris Bent on the Subway, Paris Chilling in Jardin du Luxembourg Obstructed View Round About Paris Azure, Yoshimi and the Man, Double Exposure Azure and the man in hats

winter light

The luscious late winter light in suburban tokyo lets the viewer feel the warmth and glow of the sun on crips cool days. Traveling though the endless stream of apratments, houses, concrete pathways, it all becomes illuminated with incandesent light. Light is the theme of my photos in this section. The glow brings life into the inanimate concrete of a usually foreboding urban maze.

winterlight10 winterlight01s winterlight02s winterlight04s kasai 11, Riverside Kasai, Down by the Riverside kasai14 kasai13 winterlight05s winterlight07s

nyc 2006

Over the years I have adopted NYC as a second home. This series explores people and their environments in the concrete jungle that is NYC. Wandering the endless streets of city, letting the urban environment speak to my subconcious, I let my gaze and my camera meander to whatever captures my eye. The light enters the lens to transfix this time and place we call New York City into my film.

1st Avenue Laundromat, East Village NYC Buy NYC NYC Legs, and Icees To We Make, Canal Street Blazing up the Streets nyc10 Subway Astor Place nyc12 Moishes NYC, Jewish Bakery

Abstractions:  Political Posters and Sign

A collection of images created by re-photographing political posters in Japan. By using a macro lens Jacob explores the territory of the image’s structure with in the poster.  The poster by the process of selection and enlarging becomes abstracted.  In addition to the visual elements of the images there are also the subverted messages of the politicians themselves being reexamined by Jacob’s lens.

Reach OUT Sniff Sniff Composition in Yellow and Blue Minor Root of it All Red Badge of Lies Rust Up ! Sign Abstraction Study 01 Off the Top of the Head Ichikawa Ta Eyes Bleed India Ink Sticky, Tricky Fingers Just Rust Around My Way Nailed ! ! Red Polygon, Blue Stripe and Blur Organic Orange Blob with Red Stripe White on White Arrow X the Politicians Eye Bad Day Red Blotch Grass Reflection Bump Curve Helmet Head Slice Slice of Orange , Rhetoric Style Waxy Hair Spike Red Kanji Character Twist Your're in My Hands Sign Without Message Look!, Up in the Sky Stop in Tape Yellow Square Black Kanji Fragment Upper Lip Got Ripped Negative Can be a Positive Line Double Dot Red Dash Dab Drip Faking it, NOT an MC On the Wings of a Dove Hair is the Prize Dot Your Eyes and Cross Your Nose Blind, Leading the Blind White Slash, Blue Surface Stop Crack Barely There, Homage to Mint Green Black and White, isn't reall So Zen: is Circular Graffiti Cellophane Abstraction Finger Writing Top Down X-ray Love Pa Knot One Olive Branch Silver Rainbonic Scratches Necked, and Segmented Segmented Tricksters Ear Sideburns, got Burned Why so Long, Trickster Unshaven, Unclean Deeper than the Ocean Blue F is for Flake I Need it, Like I Need a Hole in the Head Tarping Fisted Mold and Kanji Boogie Puple Dot Glasses Politician and Wires Cheeky Nakamura It's All Temporary Snack No More Blue Wall Ocean Orangic out of Inorganic Humanity Mt Fuji on a Trickster Kanji with Tape Crooked Smile Eyeing Upside Down and Concrete Off the Wall and on the Ground Bumpy Flower Pole Partial Na Shaking on It He's Cold, In More Ways than One Can't Trust Hot Eyes The State of It Enter the Spot Two Finger Tie No Truth Through These Teeth Wrinkles in Time Show Your Orange Stripes, Only for the Ladies Twittle Hair, Twittle Dumb Not the Red Badge of Courage A Stitch in a Stuffed Shirt Feminine Political Camouflage A Wrinkle in Our Sysytem Ear Yellow Blue If I Had the Wings of a Dove Torn Mouth, Plastic Smile Folded Up in Non-Truth Wrinkles Do Not Equal Wisodom Right Between the Eyes Half Smile Guts Cut Red Piece, Hair Piece Red Yellow He's a Bad Fellow Pitter Patter of Flapping Lips There is Only One Blue White Red Knock Out Lens Four Way Debate Torn the Other Cheek Scratching the Retina Jesus World Economic Party

Self Portaits:  Reflections into the Self

Concrete Reflected Flower Who's that Kitty in the Window, Meow, Meow Cubic Reflection Back Window, Asakusa Takaoka Window Self Reflection Open Alterations, North Miami It Suits You, North Miami Blue Tailor Monograms, Miami 2010 Etzel Itzik, Miami 2010 Reflecting on Kanji nyc 2nd AVE [jacob-schere] Self Portrait Headless in Paris Homage to Friedlander I Miss NYC too! Self Portrait Peep on Though Rims, South Dixie Hwy Outside In Sawada Salon, Yellow Knob A Portrait of a Finger Me and My Fire Extinguishers Tagged, Hooked, Corner Fragmented Portrait Fragmented Portrait II (Color) Reflect the Kanji Outside the Chicken Shack Refracted Gold Headless Manequin I am a Lost Boot Necslaces, Watches, and Self Dragonfly Privacy Glass Self Portrait Cafe Window, Bicycle and Blur Barbershop Vortex Shoe Horns Galore Dusty Self Me and Hawaiian Shirt, Hilo Big Island Hawaii Empty Store Front, Hilo Big Island Hawaii Clothing, Sugamo Style Translucent Window Watching Vacant Reflection Flesh Glass Star Oodles of Bottles Lemon Cafe Portait of a Wedding Portrait, Zushi window02 Fragmented Barbershop Self Fragmented Self III Double Me Glass Kanji Play

Geometrical Wabi Sabi

A geometrical exploration how I as a photographer interact with my surroundings in Japan.  How does the wear and tear of the images act in a harmonious natures in a land of concrete, steel, and plastic.  I like to call it geometrical wabi sabi.

Bumpy Fan Squared Cement Wall Bush Can't Come In The Door Knows it is Summer Inorganic Construction The Sun Will Come Out at Night Fence Wall Obscurity A House Divided Air Conditioned Construction Window Squared Garden Door Sheltered Vent Straight Sweep Tossing Down Coins Pole Window Vent Scooter Brown Door, Yellow Cones Window Bleed Pole Gate Window Meters Fence Step Wall Blue Shade, Pink House Door Mailbox Window Squared Rectangle in a Square Square, Rectangle, Circle, Dot, Dot Double Me Glass Piped at the Train Office 4-24 Bicycle Window Exhaust Window Window Wall Box Door Broom Lost Hand Towel Down in Castle Rock Front Side Garden Siding Window with Aloe and Bricks Moon in Shibuya Door, Vines, Harajuku Fish Door Knob Window Cubic Reflection Purple, Blue and Adobe Wanna Be Diamond Door Life Sighted Again From this Window, Peace on Earth R Window ２Shirts, Squares and Rectangles Uneven and Unbalanced Seek Inner Thought Tokyo Station Forrest Brick by Square by Rectangle Wheel, Air Conditioner, Menu Wall Pon Wall Blank Garden Pon Wall Living Small
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