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It felt good, and the results are pleasing. I dug out the Mamiya 645 camera earlier this week, half expecting to find fungus or something, not having used it in over a year. No fungus apparent, just a dead battery, which didn’t affect metering as there is none with the prism finder I have, but [...]

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Yanaka, Tokyo, January 8, 2005. Mamiya 645, Fuji NS160. No I haven’t given up the blog, as mentioned here I’m busy with other things at the moment. I’ve never been a good multi-tasker when it comes to hobbies and interests, unfortunately. Truth is, I sort of miss the blog, definitely miss the photography, got some [...]

So yesterday as I was emerging from the depths of Shinjuku station, I came up not to fresh air but the formulaic strains of some Japanese pop group and a bunch of craned-neck fans ooh-ing and ah-ing. Based on the audience being 99% female, perhaps it was one of Johnny’s boy bands performing (Johnny Kitagawa [...]

Ginza, Tokyo, July 2, 2004

On view for three more weeks or so at the Mitaka City Gallery of Art in west Tokyo is a retrospective of the work of Shigeo Gocho, a Tokyo-based photographer who died at the young age of 36 (1946 – 83). Born in Niigata, from the age of four Gocho suffered from caries of his [...]