‘I had to wait for some colour to arrive – the red man appeared at just the right moment’: Zahyr Caan’s best phone picture

The Nottingham-based photographer was in Tokyo when he spotted this graphic combination of shadow and light

Zahyr Caan was on a sightseeing trip to Tokyo when he took this photograph. He was in Ginza, on his way to visit the Gundam statue, having tried Japanese muffins for breakfast at an exclusive restaurant. It was an August morning, and the temperature had already hit 38C.

“The sun was very bright, meaning excellent conditions for my style of street photography,” says Caan, who was born in Pakistan and now lives in Nottingham. “I like to create a mise en scène and then wait for a human element to enter the frame.”