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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Well there are whale tails and whale tales. This past week or so in Japan I’ve had numeorus photographic assignments all of which were whale tales of one sort of another.
It started early last week with a trip up to Aomori to photograph the Tokyo Two again, Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki, who are standing [...]
So, there I was 8.30am this morning, in downtown Azabu Juban, a sunny cosmopolitan corner of Tokyo, Japan. I knew it was cosmopolitan as the local coffee shop had outdoor seats and tables. Out in the mean city at a mean time to shoot a friendly editorial portrait assignment, sort of a business portrait without [...]
Apples. That’s all I previously knew about Aomori, a city in northern Japan, – that they had big apples, and I’d never been there. But then, earlier this year, my boss called from Greenpeace with an assignment, an ongoing photographic assignment spread over a few months which seem like eternity, to document and cover the [...]
And then of course, when you do have photo assignment pics or films in the lab getting done, you need somewhere to hang out. Not all photo labs have a ‘coffee corner’. Here in Tokyo best thing to do would be to go on a two week holiday whilst you await your films being dev’d. [...]
