TokyoLand

It’s been a busy past few weeks here in photography world in sunny TokyoLand. Lots of jobs, lots of sales of work, lots of emails and thankfully little stress. A lot of the recent work has come from new clients which is always good, it’s always important to broaden the diversity of bank accounts from [...]

Here’s a link to an article, and interview, with Arthur Edwards, of The Sun newspaper in UK. For those of you not familiar with any of those names, The Sun is one of the biggest tabloid papers of Britain, read by millions on a daily basis, and Arthur Edwards has been their “royal” photographer for [...]

There is a guy who emails me a lot, a part-time Olive Farmer, from south eastern Italy and from time to time he tells me how much he admires the work of David Alan Harvey. Reason I post this is that although I am aware of David Alan Harvey’s work I never, truth be told, [...]

If you’re lucky enough to be in New York on April 5th then you can pop along to Aperture books and see and hear, in the living flesh, Josef Koudelka on an extremely rare appearance. If you live in NY you have no excuses not to go, if I wasn’t going somewhere else on the [...]

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This morning on BBC World there was a report about the latest round up of the drug cartel mafia in Naples, Italy. More than 200 hundred arrests, predominantly from two clans…. (Why is it stories of the Mafia are always so interesting, so watchable..? I blame Francis myself).
Watching the BBC report made me [...]

Cherry blossom season has officially begun….”…The announcement came after blossom was spotted on a closely monitored tree in central Tokyo. “At this afternoon’s observation, we observed six flowers blooming. So, we claim cherry blossom bloomed today,” the agency’s chief of technology, Akira Honda, said….”
Great. Now the parks will smell of stale alcohol for the next [...]

“….what the client doesn’t know is that you would’ve done the job for half the price, and what you don’t know is that the client was willing to pay double…”