TokyoLand

Over on Gaia Photos fellow Tokyo photographer Paolo Patrizi has some good work ( looks like medium format) showing the work places of (mostly African) prostitutes who ply the roads near Rome in Italy. Go take a look….

Over on NYT’s Lens blog there is a superb slideshow of recent work from Afghanistan by David Guttenfelder, Associated Press photographer, sometimes based in Tokyo….

It wouldn’t be the 20th July if we didn’t mention the moon landings, and Hassleblads, and exploration. NASA over on their site have a good set of images to peruse, and which very kindly you can download in high resolution. Nice, download, print it out, great pic for the wall, many thanks NASA.
Here is one [...]

A couple of nice links to photog’s websites…..
Albanian photographer Bevis Fusha, as sent to me by Bartek Wrzesniowski.
And a touch of fashion, look for her pics in the harsh light of Africa, nice work. The fashion photography of Viviane Sassen.

Last year I had the pleasure of meeting American photographer Joel Meyerowitz, here in sunny Tokyo. Kind chap, friendly, had time for all us young whippersnappers, even courteous enough to answer a subsequent email I sent. Anyway, reason I mention this is that the ever informative Photography pages from the Guardian has a short piece [...]

Photography exhibitions at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan took a big step forward last night as legendary Japanese photographer Eikoh Hosoe opened a small show of his work. Under the stewardship of Tony McNic0l, the man now responsible for filling the walls of the club with art and photography, the exhibitions have gone from [...]

Paule Saviano has a blog on the go, he just sent me a comment and I saw the blog link. It’s a Noo Yawk based blog, bit of a different accent from TokyoLand…..take a look, if just for his mermaid pic. I WANT TO SHOOT THAT PIC.
Paule has appeared in this blog before, with a [...]

Funny how you never hear a name then all of a sudden it’s the only name you see. Such is life recently with Zackary Canepari. Sometime last week I saw his website which has some nice work, then I find he’s in a pickle with his editors at NYT. And I saw some other reference [...]