TokyoLand

A BBC Radio3/John Tusa interview with Don McCullin, a transcript, and also you can listen to it. Or if listening to Don doesn’t take your fancy then there is a list of many other notables who will be worth listening to….

Last night I was at the Anders Petersen photo show, and very enjoyable it was too. Good photos, good company, pretty good wine, strange canapes,and even said hello to Mr. Petersen himself which was nice.
As I walked after the show I got a text message telling me to look at the full moon, and [...]

An Australian Reportage festival, with grant….

One thing when you’re a photographer trying to get to see Picture Editors on big bad magazines in Big Bad cities, is that you never know what they’re thinking, what’s going on…do they mean that or are they just saying that? Is that really the budget or just what they’re paying me?
Well, if you [...]

A feature article by Justin McCurry about the plight of Tokyo’s homeless people living in Internet cafes, runs today in the Guardian, with a few pics shot by me. Here’s the tear sheets below, and here’s the article.

Stephen Gill spends three years shooting pics of toilet paper.

©Anders Petersen.
Anders Petersen, the seminal European photographer, has a show starting this Friday night at the Rat Hole Gallery in Tokyo, images from his famous work ‘Cafe Lehmitz’. A must see exhibition for October….Here’s a Guardian interview with him, and here is a great link with slideshow and an 18minute audio interview with Petersen (link [...]

But you probably didn’t know it. Yesterday scanning through the Guardian website I came across an article about Paul Muldoon. I paused briefly and thought to myself, “had him in the back of the camera”, as per the above pic.
Paul Muldoon, not exactly a household name, certainly not in this house, but in other houses [...]