May 11th, 2009 |
Tokyo Photojournalist welcomes applications for photo exhibitions at the Foreign Correspondent’s Club of Japan in Tokyo (FCCJ). I am the current chair of the exhibition committee.
To cut a long story short, the club doesn’t have a budget for prints, but we do have simple frames and the month long exhibitions are free of charge. So [...]
March 3rd, 2009 |
This month’s correspondent’s club exhibtion is by a Japanese photographer, Go Yamagata.
(From the FCCJ notice)
The “Himba” African tribal group live in an arid area of North-western Namibia known as “Kaokoland”. Since his first encounter with the Himba people in 2004, photographer Go Yamagata has been fascinated by their traditional lifestyle as well as [...]
January 30th, 2009 |
One of my jobs when I’m not researching, writing, photographing, or washing the dishes at home is running the exhibition committee of the Foreign Correspondent’s Club of Japan. Each month we have a different photo exhibition. I’m going to blog them as they happen.
Here are two photos from this month’s show, “Showa Japan seen through [...]
January 26th, 2009 |
When can and when can’t you take photos in Japan?
I received an unexpected email from an anthropology professor in Osaka about this topic last week. He had some interesting questions which I’ve pasted below with my answers. I’d love to know how other photographers in Japan would answer.
If anyone wants to fill in his questionnaire, [...]
January 7th, 2009 |
Sorry for the blog hiatus . . .
New Year’s Resolutions
Blog more often
Don’t get freaked out by the poor economic climate depression
Dive into multimedia (watch this space)
Shed my aversion to Photoshop
Take LOTS and LOTS of photos – preferably of things no-one’s photographed before. At least not in the same way.
Anyone have resolutions they want to share?
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