Trained as a sculptor, Sato uses photography to explore light and space in order to give more dimension to a picture. He made pinhole cameras to shoot Favorite Place and the rest of the Gleaning Light series. The pinhole camera, one of photography’s earliest tools, is a lightproof box with a hole in one of its sides. Light entering through the hole projects an image onto film or photographic paper on the opposite wall of the chamber. Even with long exposure time, the limited amount of light yields atmospheric photographs. Sato explained he sought to express “not a rectangular fragment, but the atmosphere of the place” in Gleaning Light. In this image of Coney Island, the artist not only captures the energy of the festive night, but also time expressed as the movement of light.