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A view up into overhead train cables and a ceramic insulator, a silhouetted head blurred below.

Compressed Shinjuku facades — a red Mitsubishi UFJ sign, a Shinjuku 3-chōme street sign, and a lit amber traffic signal.

A bright yellow building facade in raking light, dotted with round fixtures, an excavator arm entering the frame.

The front of a dented silver van with a cracked windshield and a Nerima license plate.

A young man in black lighting a cigarette in front of a steel industrial door.

A tapering skyscraper in silhouette against a heavy overcast sky.

A small white-and-red kei truck parked at the foot of a stairway in hard sunlight.

A suited man pausing to smoke, in black and white.

A single persimmon on bare branches against a deep blue sky.

A silver minivan across a sunlit street as a figure with a shopping bag passes in shadow.

Pink cosmos flowers growing at the foot of a dark parked car in low light.

A red-and-blue neon karaoke sign glowing on a dark building at night.

A man in a suit checks his phone in a narrow alcove beside a parked moped and an Evian ad.

Two workers atop a red crane counterweight marked 4.2 t at a construction site under a grey sky.

A person in a long coat crossing a wide, sunlit plaza in raking light, cinemas behind.

A woman laughs mid-stride on a city street, holding a phone and a bundle of small plush toys.

Looking down the white spiral stair, treads fanning around the dark center pole, in black and white.

A small dark clay figure, arms raised, on a white table before an architectural maquette.

A low bed against a rough plaster wall, a spherical lamp glowing on the wood ledge beside it.

Louis Eisner's baboon, in oil, on a mohair wall between a shelf of books and a pale leather sofa.

Morning haze over the bed at the angled corner window, a small brass head on the ledge, the ravine green beyond.

Two dogs on a rooftop terrace in the trees — one crossing by the white rail, one lying flat in the sun.

A red house on an overgrown hillside, vines flowering orange up the slope, a white screen-block facade behind.

A woman stands barefoot on parquet in a bright bedroom, sheer curtains in the bay windows, the bed unmade.

A frog the size of a fingertip sitting in an open palm, dry ochre ground below.

A green corrugated shed behind a pipe fence, the freight car CMO 10108 passing behind it.

The sun burning low and gold beneath heavy blue-green cloud over dark scrubland.

Fluorescent tubes on the canopy of a check stop burning through the dark, haze catching the light.

A branch bent with green jujubes against a blue sky and clouds.

A woman in a white fur-trimmed coat stands in the subway car, head bowed, reflections crossing the glass.

A suited man's clenched fist in the foreground, a no-U-turn sign and dry grass against blue sky behind.

A figure in a long pale coat at a high window, silhouetted, the city spread far below.

A dim hotel room in warm light, the bed unmade, two small lamps on the headboard wall.

A security camera on a granite corner in raking light, a 24-hour parking sign at right.

A man slumped on the stairway under the Salon de Noble arch, bar signs stacked beside him.

The lattice tower in silhouette on the skyline, sun breaking through storm clouds in rays.

Two charros on horseback from behind, tooled leather saddles and pale hats in hard sun.

A framed black-and-white portrait of a man in a sombrero, cigarette in his lips, hung on a dark door.

A rider sat in the arena dust, sombrero on, the black bull kicking up behind.

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Robert Pecina Jr

Robert Pecina Jr photographs in San Antonio, where he lives, and wherever the work goes — Austin, Tokyo, Zurich, Lima, Venice. He shoots the street, still lifes, and portraits, and takes editorial commissions.

He has been published in Vogue, Robb Report, and The New Order Magazine. Under the name Robert D. Junior, he published "You Will Live Forever" with Shabazz Projects; the book launched internationally, including at Colette in Paris.

Commissions are open. Write to mail@r-p.studio.

Select publications Vogue, Robb Report, The New Order Magazine

Commissions mail@r-p.studio

Elsewhere instagram.com/robertpecinajr