Marcel Winatschek

The Tokyo Diaries

David Schumann went to Japan as a student and got spotted on the street by a photographer—one of those things that actually happens to people sometimes. He’s a punk rocker with tattoos, so maybe he stood out in Tokyo. The modeling world, the culture shock, the randomness of discovery, all of it became a book called The Tokyo Diaries. I’m drawn to that kind of story: a life you don’t plan for that catches you anyway.