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 [...]

…in an interview situation today for a client of mine, shooting pics of a CEO. Here’s some idea of how it goes here in Corporate Japan Inc…
The meeting takes weeks to set up. Journalist has to visit The Company four times for meetings, in order to arrange the interview. The Journalist’s questions are submitted in [...]