Here’s a interview with the acclaimed and revered art director Michael Rand, ex- art director at The Sunday Times Magazine in UK, over on Professional Photographer.
Many years ago after I won the Ian Parry Memorial Award I was able to squeeze my young self and fat folio through the door of The Sunday Times Magazine, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
A while back I wrote of my interview with Professional Photographer magazine. They wished to ask me about how I got started in the photography world, how I progressed, how I work from here in Tokyo and what type of assignments I undertake, how I get them etc, and my thoughts on the industry. The [...]
As an assignment photographer here in Tokyo, Japan, shooting portraits, reportage, corporate etc for clients I do end up with a lot of tear sheets. Luckily. But also unluckily. Luckily I get commissions and luckily most clients are good enough to supply me with tear sheets. Unluckily, these tear sheets have built up in a [...]
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 [...]
