A bit late with this post, but in some ways it is timeless.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Little explanation is needed of the cities, their whereabouts, or their history, and what happened to them in 1945.
In this the week of the 65th year anniversary of the nuclear bombings, I decided to take a look back over old [...]
Today.
1 assignment.
16 hours.
2 cities.
2 portraits.
3 bullet trains.
4 local trains.
4 taxis.
1 tram.
1 plane.
1 sandwich, 3 coffees, 1 beef curry.
244 photographs shot.
44 pictures edited.
23 pictures sent.
Two cold beers in the fridge waiting for me.
A while back I was fortunate enough to be sent on photographic assignment, with behind the scenes access, at the Nissan car design centre in Hon Atsugi, just outside of Tokyo, Japan. Car design centres are not usually the types of places where photographers can wander at will snapping away, too many secrets waiting to [...]
As I mentioned on a previous blog post here I’ve been working on and off this year on photographic assignment in Aomori, northern Japan, for Greenpeace covering the ongoing trial of Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki – known collectively as the ‘Tokyo Two‘.
In that previous post I talked of how I was trying to cover [...]
So I was at the ballet a couple of nights back, here in Tokyo, Japan, on assignment to photograph at the Royal Ballet’s ‘Romeo And Juliet’. Great stuff, great access (thanks R.N.), great help from the company and dancers. There’s nothing beats being in a changing room with 30 female dancers, or backstage as Prokofiev’s [...]
You know the World Cup is on when you get an assignment to go shoot photographs of Japanese scientist Takeshi Asai who has conducted experiments on the adidas Jabulani football. And the client is Brazilian.
Japanese whaling. How many times can I mention it in one week….? Well, hopefully today is the third and last time this week. There is more to life, and more to being a photographer in Japan than photographing whaling. For instance you could photograph Mujirushi Ryohin, or as it is known the world over- MUJI.
Yep, [...]
So another side of whaling, another side of the debate. That of the whalers themselves. Or at least one of them, known now as Mr. Kujira (Mr. Whale). A whaler from the Nisshin Maru factory ship (some call it a research ship, some call it a factory ship…) has decided to speak out in Japan [...]
