Paulo Gutierrez
Morning light across a tatami roomFields at middayLate light on a timber wallA workshop at night
Sagamihara — first lightQ2 · Summilux 28 · f/4Toya, Midori-ku — middaySL2-S · Takumar 35/3.5 · f/8Sagamihara — late lightSL2-S · Rokkor 58/1.4 · f/2Workshop — after dinnerSL2-S · Helios 44-2 · ISO 3200
Field notes · 2026

I build houses, take photographs, and work with data.

Filipino-born, twenty-some years in Japan, living in Sagamihara. I'm building a garage house in Toya, Midori-ku, and homeschooling three kids along the way.

Photographs

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Engawa in morning light
engawa, first lightQ2 · 28mm
Building site
Toya, on siteSL2-S · Takumar 35/3.5
Desk with a laptop
by dayQ2 · 28mm
Fields in Midori-ku
fields, Midori-kuSL2-S · Takumar 35/3.5
Workbench tools
workbenchSL2-S · Helios 44-2
Timber wall at dusk
duskSL2-S · Rokkor 58/1.4
Workshop interior
workshopISO 3200
A Porsche 991
991SL2-S · Takumar 50/1.4

Field notes

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Concrete garage beside a road
Log 014 · Garden Farm Villa 10.25

Pouring the garage slab
Vintage lens on a camera
Log 013 10.09

A week with a Helios 44-2
A desk with a laptop
Log 012 · The house, automated 09.21

A house that reports on itself
A wooden birdhouse
Log 011 · Birdhouse Co. 09.02

Birdhouse no. 23

By day

Lead Product Specialist at Databricks, APJ. I built Databricks Japan's field engineering from zero. Before that, zero-to-one platforms at Rakuten and Nikkei.