Anther couple of things….
The reproduction quality of the images in the magazine is great. There’s a beautiful sheen and sharpness, a vibrancy, to the images on the pages. Very impressive. Although the colour images look a tad better than the black and white I think. Well, under this non-scientific non-calibrated god-knows-what-kelvins light anyway.
I did receive [...]
So the above spreads of my Romanian roma gypsy photographs, are the final layout and pictures used and published in the current issue of Transit Magazine. (Available to buy now in big bookstores/magazine shops in Japan, or via Amazon.co.jp for those of you who live in the sticks).
If you read the previous posts on this [...]
The image on the left page of the above and below spread were to be chosen from. Beautiful little Mia above with her mermaid, or Yellow Dress Girl posing as supermodel, below.
So, Transit magazine in Japan, have published a selection of my Romanian Roma photographic work which I shot over 17 years. Before publishing they [...]
So, below we have Option3 of the intial three spreads I was sent by Transit Magazine to comment upon, discuss and choose from. (Options 1 and 2 were on my previous blog posts).
I quite liked this option. It was clean, neat, not jigsaw-like, and the title was bold. But my preference was still for Option1 [...]
Continued from yesterday….So the above spreads are from what I’ll call Option 2 of the initial three spreads I was sent for comment and approval by Transit Magazine. (Buy the issue of the magazine here on Amazon.co.jp).
My thoughts on seeing this spread option were: (1) It wasn’t as attractive as the black pages I wrote [...]
It was a friday evening, late’ish, not the time of day you expect a call to offer you an assignment in Romania, to go see my old pals the roma. But that’s what happened few months back, but anyway, fast forward a meeting, many contradictory emails and the assignment never happened. But the magazine, Transit [...]
In 2005 I went to Kiribati in the Pacific to photograph a story on naturally occuring ‘king tides’ and how they perfectly illustrate what the effects of global warming means to a low lying atoll like Kiribati, or the Carterets. The pics got used a bit at the time, and printed in a couple of [...]
It’s a funny ol’ job sometimes, funny ol’ life.
So it was, funny that is, earlier this year. I’d been on assignment up to Yoichi in Hokkaido, northern Japan, to visit and photograph the Yoichi distillery of the award winning Nikka single malt whisky distillers. Whilst there I’d toured their very interesting museum and read the [...]
