August 6th, 2009 |
I blogged about this back in April, but the exhibition has just opened at the correspondent’s club so here are some more photos and a short interview with the photographer Gary McLeod.
Gary has been making portraits of English teachers in Japan. Each image consists of about 300 individual photos taken with a Nikon D70 and [...]
December 18th, 2008 |
Tokyo commuters
My corner of photojournalism isn’t exactly front-line war reporting. But I think this story was about the closest I’ve come to being physically assaulted in Japan so far.
Two years ago I was writing about the Tokyo transport system (pdf) and went out to get some rush hour train photos. (Only just uploaded the pics [...]
October 30th, 2008 |
disabled wrestler
Earlier this year I did a story on a group of disabled wrestlers called Doglegs: Super Handicapped Pro-wrestling.
It sounds like the most incredibly crass bad taste idea ever. But after actually seeing one of their events I kind of understood why the wrestlers said it was empowering for them. These photos are [...]
October 21st, 2008 |
This is the story for the Japan Times I blogged on a while back. Out today.
“Access all areas: camping trip offers no-holds-barred insight into disability
It is the early hours of the morning and I’m sat out in the open air. My eyes are closed [...]
September 5th, 2008 |
Japan isn’t renowned for its whisky, but actually it should be because the good stuff is very good indeed. These photos are from one of Nikka’s two distilleries in Japan – part of a travel story I was doing on the city of Sendai.
I think I could guess why Nikka chose the location for a [...]
August 9th, 2008 |
I was at the Big Site exhibition hall in Odaiba last weekend covering one of Tokyo’s many otaku events. (Deep deep into geek territory for a series of articles on Japanese pop culture exports right now)
This one was for model makers and figure collectors: everything from Tamiya tanks to latex Godzillas
I got there about 12 [...]
May 13th, 2008 |
Is the end near for Fukuda? He’s not so popular where I live anyway!
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