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Nagaoka Woody 45, Nikkor-W 180mm/5.6, 1/125, f.16, Fuji FP-100B45 instant film Kiyoshi has been my private English student for almost 3 years now. He has been playing the accordion for about 14 years, having settled on the instrument after unsatisfying tries at the guitar, piano, and violin. Twice a week he teaches beginning and intermediate [...]

Christmas stamps produced for Royal TNT Post BV (The Netherlands) Design: Eric Kessels/ KesselsKramer Original photos: Kurt Easterwood If you can read Dutch, you can read about the above Christmas stamp for the Dutch postal system, of which I had very little to do with other than to supply the photos, here. (A barely understandable [...]

(Above posted with a debt to Antipixel, whose composite from 4 years ago gave me the idea). We make it an annual occurrence to go to the Toda – Itabashi Fireworks Festival which is held on the Arakawa River that forms the border between Tokyo and Saitama Prefecture, where we live. (We’ve only missed one, [...]

German filmmaker and photographer Wim Wenders will be in town later this month for a couple (perhaps more?) events that those in the Tokyo area might be interested in. At the new Omotesando Hills building there will be an exhibition entitled Journey to Onomichi, featuring photos by Wenders and his wife Donata, which will run [...]

If you’re in Tokyo then you really should try to catch the Hiroo Kikai photo exhibition of some of his “Persona” series, portraits taken over the last 10 years in Asakusa, showing at the Nikon Salon in Ginza (free, until March 11). I’m not usually a big fan of portraiture but this work has something. [...]