TokyoLand

So, few nights back. Standing on the terrace, chatting with my mate from next door. He’s telling me about his experience of running the Tokyo marathon the day before. Shoes this, rain that, 10 kilometres here, and then, he said to me “was the best bit, I ran past Jesus”. And he describes it..he runs [...]

Tsutomu Yamaguchi, a survivor of both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings in 1945, died on January 4th this year, aged 93.
In 2005 I was fortunate enough to sit in his garden, under a tree, and listen as Yamaguchi-san told myself and colleagues from The Times about those terrible days. You can read an earlier [...]

Firstly, Happy New Year.
Secondly, one of my Romanian roma photographs has appeared on the cover of a reprint of Isabel Fonseca’s acclaimed book ‘Bury Me Standing- The Gypsies and their Journey’.Now you have something to spend all your book tokens on that you got at Christmas.

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 [...]