TokyoLand

I found the above outside my house a while back, it made me smile, nice design, but also I’ve a mate in Santa Monica. Dan Tuffs, upped and left Edinburgh soon after I left Glasgow, I went East, he went West. Visit his website here to see the rich and famous of LA.

35 years of Tokyo in 16 seconds….

A couple of weeks back I got a job from The Guardian to go to Tokyo’s Love hotel area and take some pictures to illustrate a business story (read it here) by Justin McCurry about Love Hotels. Easy enough, wander round, shoot the furtive couples and there were many of them at 4 in the [...]

The view from my balcony, yesterday, or day before..

Back in 1979, when I was a nipper, I used to cut up National Geographic magazines. I had a whole stack of them, I’d cut out the pics and stick them together. I made a sort of scrap book of pics, about how people live in different parts of the world, I used different colour [...]

A while back I photographed Yakuza-gangster’s daughter, Shoko Tendo, now a best-selling author (of book ‘Yakuza Moon’). Then I photographed her again. And again…
Now in the shops, available at all good bookstores, is the USA December edition of Marie Claire magazine which has a 4 page spread of the pics and story. They chose the [...]