Some more corporate portraits
Share A last selection from the corporate portraits I’ve been doing for EURObiZ Japan. With these I always try to include something from the person’s work in the photo. Some people/occupations can be harder than others. But I always do my best to make them look relaxed, and happy with their jobs. I get the [...]
Talking Tokyo photojournalist
Share Earlier this year I was interviewed by an organisation called The Shpilman Institute for Photography. To be quite honest, I don’t know much about them, but the questions were fun and I seem to be among in good company amongst the other interviewees on the blog. I’m re-posting the interview here with permission. Just [...]
Digital Hollywood
Share This is Tomo Sugiyama, the President of Digital Hollywood University; every inch the Japanese digital guru. I interviewed him last week for a story on digital content (games, TV, cellphone content etc). Sugiyama was at MIT in the 1980s with Nicholas Negroponte, which is a pretty cool IT credential. When he came back to [...]
Travel article – “yo! le tengu”
Share Trip to Takao-san today, a 599 meter high mountain that’s actually within Tokyo’s city limits. Supposedly it’s guarded by “tengu” demons like this one at Takao station. taking a break . . . jizo statue in the grass:
The Theatre Royal
Share I spent a few weeks in Bath last year on “holiday”. Here’s one of the resulting stories. All about the Theatre Royal – truly one of my favourite places in the world. After 8 years in Japan I still haven’t been to the theatre here. It wouldn’t be the same. “I can’t remember exactly [...]
sun, sea and sembei
Share Choshi is pretty much the eastern-most point of central Japan, aka the middle of nowwhere, but a nice escape from Tokyo. I travelled there a few months ago to do this story for the ACCJ Journal. CLICK FOR PDF
back from the US
Share 18 days, 2200 miles and too many hamburgers . . . just returned from a epic trip to the US researching lighthouses on the West Coast. Photo below is courtesy of Mattias Westfalk. Thanks Mattias.
The Meat Guy
Share “Hamming it up for the camera” An interview I did for the American Chamber of Commerce Magazine. Interesting guy to talk to — and fine beer sausages! “Jason P. Morgan is the man they call “The Meat Guy.”Ham, sausages or sirloin steak. Whatever meat you want, wherever you are in Japan, he’ll sell it [...]
Blogged
Share I spent all of yesterday taking photos of people waiting by the statue of Hachiko in Shibuya (for more on Hachiko, see here). This guy was taking photos too. The photo of me is from his blog.
empty lot
Share A space between two buildings in Takadanobaba. This lady walked past at just the right time.
building a buddhist temple
Share A friend from London is involved with this project to build a Buddhist temple in Kagoshima. Amazing design. Link to Ping Mag.
enjoying Kurosawa
Share Seven Samurai – I swore I wouldn’t watch this till I had a chance of understanding the dialogue. Worth the wait! (It’s been a big couple of weeks – first Ozu film, first Kurosawa film and first Kabuki!)
Listening
Share Bossa Nova – John Pizzarelli “I took your picture With my trusty Rolleiflex And now all I have developed Is a complex”
