I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, and it is ever more pertinent this year, all photographers, snappers, wannabe-snappers, have to understand that this ‘lifestyle/job/career/passion’ (delete as appropriate) isn’t just about shooting pictures, wearing Afghan hats and scarves, and drinking lattes with your M8 on the table beside you. IT IS A BUSINESS, [...]
‘Film with lens’, or as I prefer to call them - cameras, on sale in a vending machine here in sunny Tokyo.
If you have time you should pop into the Konica Minolta Gallery in Shinjuku, Tokyo, to see Yasuhiro Ogawa’s latest interpretation of his ‘Slowly Down The River’ series from the Yangtzee in China. I saw the exhibition this afternoon on the way home from an assignment and it looks beautiful, especially a large bank of [...]
Here’s a link to possibly the best assignment/story (with a small news update) I’ve ever worked on, by one of the best journalists I’ve ever worked with- Richard Lloyd Parry, of The Times – the story of double Hibakusha ( or double atomic bomb survivors), that is people who were in both Hiroshima and Nagasaki, [...]
C is for Carterets Atoll.
It all started with an article entitled ‘Pacific Atlantis’, by John Vidal, in The Guardian telling the plight of the Carteret islanders, and how life on their 6 island atoll was becoming unsustainable, relocation was possible and they might become the world’s first climate change refugees….
Sounds interesting I thought. I pitched [...]
If you have time this week it is worth visiting the Eco & Art Award 2009 exhibition at the Konica Minolta Gallery in Shinjuku, in Tokyo. Sponsored by PEN Magazine the show features art works which make us think of the environment, ways to protect it, and the abuses of it.
There are many good exhibits, [...]
From Greenpeace comes a slideshow of my photographs of illegal logging in Paradise Forest, Papua New Guinea, with narration by me discussing the background to the images shown.
The work, shot in autumn 2008, was a documentation of illegal and unethical practices by logging companies taking place in the Paradise Forest of Papua New Guinea.
The slideshow [...]
So Monday here in Tokyo, another week of assignments and chores beckons. But firstly tidying up from last weeks busy week of photography, and all that goes with it, editing, ftp’ing, invoicing, backing-up, downloading, all stuff which makes this a job and not a hobby.
From one of my many folders being edited from last week, [...]
