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Ueno Zoo, Tokyo, September 11, 2004. Canon EOS Elan IIe, 50/1.8 II, Konica Pan 400 For reasons unknown, the “Japan Photographers” mailing list was pulled “off the air” so to speak by one of its owners today, wiping out the subscriber list as well as, sadly, the list archives (so it seems). Therefore the list [...]

Some new photos for your enjoyment.

Ginza, Tokyo, June 4, 2004. Bessa L, CV 21mm f/4, Konica Pan 400 It’s not everyday I can receive an insightful comment about my work, something that opens the eyes and makes me see the photo anew, from a different perspective, while at the same time articulating things that I felt intuitively myself but couldn’t [...]

Here’s a new series shot in Tokyo’s Kanda-Jimbocho, often called the largest book market in the world due to the high concentration of new and secondhand bookstores one can find there.

Tokyo, 1972. Photo by Daido Moriyama. Been digging Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama of late. Not sure I “get it” as of yet, nor understand what I’m responding to, but yeah, I’m digging it. Here are some links to his imagery online so you can dig it too: One should obviously start with the photographer’s own [...]

Just to be clear that isn’t my image above, but one from Japanese photographer Shigeru Iwama. I use it to help illustrate a wonderful series of images I found this evening on Iwama’s site, taken on Sado Island 30 years ago. This discovery seemed worthy of more than just a short link in the sidebar. [...]