Glen Snyder is a photographer from Texas who lives in Tokyo. He has worked as a university geochemist and is also a Zen priest. He also goes by the name Isshin Glen.
The COVID pandemic brought him back to photography, both digital and film. During those years he photographed the camera district around Shinjuku Station at night with an Olympus OM-2 and a 55mm f/1.2 lens, for his photo essay Pandemia.
Much of his work is a series of experiments with old cameras, lenses and films. In Vintage he used a Konica III rangefinder from the late 1950s to compare black-and-white, expired and retro-look films. In Dreams he tried to photograph the feeling of dreams with soft lenses, inspired by Akira Kurosawa’s film of the same name. He has also photographed indie bands in Tokyo’s Live House venues, and in January 2025 he made a sunset photograph on Sai Kung Pier in Hong Kong with a 1968 Konica FTA.
