TokyoLand

I remember where I was twenty years ago today, on Sunday, February 11th 1990. I remember it clearly. I was sitting in a  little blue Ford Fiesta car, for which I can still remember the registration number, my first car. I was stopped at traffic lights in Charing Cross, Glasgow, and the radio was on. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Marie Claire USA have run a 5 page spread of my images, which accompany a story by Abigail Haworth, on an Australian woman, Fiona Graham, who has become the first qualified Westerner to work as a geisha here in Tokyo, Japan. The spread as it appears in the magazine is below, and the Marie Claire [...]

2005 South Korea Whale Embassy - Images by Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert
U is for Ulsan, South Korea. Stinky, dusty, bad diet, disease ridden bed linen, always one hour away from a beating, non-stop pornography, fermenting kimchi, Ulsan.
As so many of these stories begin, it begins with a phone call, “Can you go to Ulsan for 3 to [...]

Q is for Qantas.
So I was on an atoll for a few days. Nice place, poverty all around, pigs running wild, children running free. There’s palm trees and sea everywhere. The sky is huge and blue, beautiful clouds. The people are friendly and unassuming in their gangsta rapper t-shirts. The roads are dirt and bumpy. [...]