TokyoLand

A nice little Robert Frank story here, the story of the people in one of his iconic images from The Americans.

A few years back a generous client sent me on an ‘underwater helicopter escape training course’. Perhaps it wasn’t the real name, but it’s the best name to describe it.
It was the type of thing you see on TV for oil rig workers etc, you go to a swimming pool, wear flight clothes, get strapped [...]

©Tom Kidd.
It’s always great to discover a big body of interesting historical work. Even more so when it’s from your own country. And even more so when you know the photographer, but didn’t know the work.A few nights ago I discovered this work, ‘Black Gold Tide‘ by Scottish photographer Tom Kidd and author Tom Morton [...]

To view more images from both the geisha and prison stories, both of which are written about below, then go here to my archive where you can peruse the full sets of images.

So, sometimes life imitates the movies. There I was a few weeks back living like a condemned man for 48 hours.
I get the assignment from my paper, go to Kyoto and do a geisha story, spend money on expenses they said, hire a maiko girl, drink beers, have fun, cause merriment, your last evening [...]

So a while back I was in prison here in Japan. Doing time. Porridge. In the slammer. For what I hear you all chuckle ? - Crimes against photography ? Crimes against squint horizons ? Crimes for the non-use of flash ? Yeah, yeah, yeah, funny, the lot of you….
Nope, I was in prison on [...]

Sitting here, killing time, watching as 58 images upload to a client’s ftp site, 58 shots of an interesting, amusing, slightly sad and disturbing story here in Tokyo. A story which over the past few days has seen me photograph a very busty 20 year old girl in an elevator, a CEO in front of [...]