TokyoLand

M is for Mount Fuji. In Japan.
C is for climbing Mount Fuji one week before the season begins. F is for the five and a quarter hours the ascent took, and T is for the three and a quarter hours the descent took. All in one glorious day, the sun was shining, not a drop [...]

L is for Lvov, Ukraine. But I’m not there long enough to get anecdotes other than being in a hotel with two colleagues, Mr. Orange and Mr. Pink. We ask to see the rooms before checking in, we’re shown three rooms, each room has three beds, each room costs 6 USD to rent. We’ll take [...]

A couple of nice links to photog’s websites…..
Albanian photographer Bevis Fusha, as sent to me by Bartek Wrzesniowski.
And a touch of fashion, look for her pics in the harsh light of Africa, nice work. The fashion photography of Viviane Sassen.

I was recently interviewed by Chinese magazine The Bund, which has a readership of a cool half a million people. They wished to talk to me about my photographs of Carteret’s Atoll in Papua New Guinea, how I got there, what was it like, my thoughts on the dire situation the islanders are facing, and [...]

As I said in the previous post, it’s always interesting to see how a client uses your images. You go to a far away place, you sweat, you toil, you shoot, if you’re lucky a good image is given to you by Lady Luck, you look after it, care for it, edit it, caption it, [...]

Another day another spread. Ya gotta love it. It’s always nice to recieve pdf’s of page layouts through the email, you see how the art director has used, or abused, your images, how they’ve laid it out, or how they’ve cropped pics etc. Mostly I expect to be disappointed, but not today. Romanian Marie Claire [...]

K is for Kiribati, the Pacific island atoll, home to approximately 90,000 people.
It was a Friday night, about 7pm Japan time, when the call came. It was my picture editor boss at Greenpeace, calling with an assignment from a few time zones away. “Can you get to Kiribati by Monday?” was what he wanted to [...]