Last night I was looking through the images which this year won the World Press Photo awards, ( just in case I had won and they’d forgotten to tell me !, but alas no…). Anyway, there are some great pics to see, a lot in the sports section I liked, and then I found this very enjoyable series, in Daily Life stories, ‘The Lonely Man’, by David Guttenfelder of Associated Press photos. Perhaps I like it as they are shot in Tokyo, or because it is nice b/w and has a real ambience to it, a real sense of a story, a make believe fairytale about a fictional character/s. I really enjoyed it.

Funny thing is today I was on an assignment and David was there, or atleast I suspected it was him but before I got a chance to introduce myself our assignment needs had taken us in seperate directions, and since starting to write this blog-post I searched his name on the internet and see his pic. So it was him, but in searching his name I also found further examples of his award winning work, and also here, and here.

I hadn’t come across his work before, so it’s enjoyable to find. I look forward to seeing him on another assignment here in Tokyo, and this time hopefully saying hello.