Japan

Tokyo | Harajuku

Tokyo is a special place. It is so wildly exotic, yet as safe and entertaining as an amusement park. The…

7 years ago

Martin Parr | Miyazaki, Japan

Tourism is the biggest industry in the world, only oil comes anywhere close and lot of that is used in…

11 years ago

Watabe Yukichi | A Criminal Investigation

The book A Criminal Investigation released by Le Bal a few years ago, displays the work of freelance photographer Watabe…

12 years ago

Memoirs of a Geisha | Background Actors

In 2005, me and a friend started checking out general casting calls. She was a freelance programmer and, as a…

12 years ago

Hiroshi Sugimoto | Seascapes

Water and air. So very commonplace are these substances, they hardly attract attention―and yet they vouchsafe our very existence. The…

13 years ago

Hiroshi Watanabe | Suo Sarumawashi

From the introduction to the Photo-Eye edition of Suo Sarumawashi: Sarumawashi, literally "monkey dancing" evolved over a 1000-year history in…

13 years ago

Hiroshi Watanabe | Places

I go to places that captivate and intrigue me. I am interested in what humans do. I seek to capture…

14 years ago

Akira Kurosawa | Group Compositions in Seven Samurai

Kurosawa was one of the 20th century's master auteurs and perhaps my favorite director. His pairing with Toshiro Mifune over…

14 years ago

Daido Moriyama | Shinjuku

One of my favorite single series is Daido Moriyama's first book of wanderings in the Shinjuku neighborhood of Tokyo. Viewing…

14 years ago