After my job today I found a nice vantage point for shooting Fuji-san and Nishi-Shinjuku skyscrapers, with the sun setting behind. I’ve seen this image from this place a million times on postcards and I’d always wondered if it was possible to shoot…or had the postcards been photoshopped ? So tonight my question is answered: [...]
I’ve another podcast, called ‘The Tide Is High’, available for viewing on the multimedia page of WpN website. The podcast is all about the Carterets Islands in Papua New Guinea where I went on assignment in December 2006, and the problems the islanders face due to rising sea levels.There’s some great music in it, [...]
So the hunting season for the whaling fleet of Japan looks to be over, depending on what you read and who you believe. After the fire over a week ago on the Nisshin Maru factory ship (pictured above, from my assignment 2005-06), and the sad death of one of their crew (whose family found out [...]
Back in November last year I had an assignment down in Hirakata, and today the story ran in The Times in London. I’d gone to Hirakata with journalist colleague Richard to meet, interview and photograph 84 year old Akira Makino, (shown above).We entered his small home, and into an unbearably hot living room. You can [...]
…as Marc Bolan (or was it Gary Glitter..) once sang.
So my gypsy/roma photo show at Konica went well, a grand total of 5,990 people went though the clicker above the door during the eight days that the show was up.The show seemed to have been well received going by watching the visitors, talking with interested [...]
Trendy.Colourful.Futuristic.Day and Night.Graphic.
My “buzzwords” for a 5 day shoot this week….
I have a new podcast available for viewing, ‘TokyoLand’. Until I get it onto my own site you’ll find it on the WpN MultiMedia page, on the list on the right hand side and down a bit. On the same page you can also see my earlier “Gypsy’ podcast, and some others by fellow WpN [...]
So finally it’s up. A small selection of work from my gypsy project, by no means is it meant to be a retrospective of a project which I’ve shot on and off over 17 years, it isn’t comprehensive, it isn’t everything, it isn’t sponsored, it isn’t framed. It’s just 36 images from the project which [...]
