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A walk into Tokyo from the Rainbow Bridge
The other week I took a contact of mine, who was in Tokyo from Sakhalin, out for a photowalk/lesson. We started in Shiodome, took the Yurikamome Line across the Rainbow Bridge and later…
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Ten-page feature in Air Mexico’s magazine
The thrill of seeing work in print never goes away. It’s always a great buzz to work on a feature for a magazine and this is my second collaboration with ‘Accent’ magazine; the…
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Photography in Tokyo: In Praise of Shinagawa Inter-City
I spent a lot of years visiting Japan and subsequently living in the Shinagawa area before I ever though there was much to see or do in Shinagawa, except use the train station….
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On location with William & Noriko
Teaching photography is one of my greatest pleasures. It’s nothing to do with me and all about the people I am teaching. In the tightrope-walking world of needing to promote my skills and…
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Stekki magazine special: Cynthia Popper
Cynthia Popper first approached me not long after she arrived in Tokyo. The first thing we did together was to walk for half a day around some of Tokyo’s backstreets: me showing her…
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June 8, 2014Fashion portraits in Tokyo: Mari Nishimura
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October 10, 2013
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October 10, 2013
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January 29, 2013
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January 25, 2013
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June 3, 2014Mamiya RB67 Lenses on Nikon D800E
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February 17, 2014
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February 12, 2014
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February 10, 2014
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January 28, 2013
How a Bruno Aveillan book led to a day of giggles & some great photos
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February 5, 2013Some thoughts about Hockney & the end of chemical photography
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November 30, 2012
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November 7, 2012
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October 27, 2012
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July 1, 2011
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June 8, 2014
Fashion portraits in Tokyo: Mari Nishimura
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April 7, 2013
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January 23, 2013
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November 30, 2012
Protector filters are a sales gimmick: my tips for lens protection & use
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November 25, 2012
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Composition 101: The Basic ‘Rules’.
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Building visual literacy
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Composition 101, Pt.1
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Simple depth of field excercises
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Using a semi-auto mode to get to manual
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A thing called ‘pre-visualisation’…
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Photography for beginners: understanding aperture, Pt.2
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Photography for beginners: understanding aperture, Pt.1
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Photography for beginners: understanding ISO
Masao Yamamoto: The Space Between Flowers
Not a photographer I was aware of but I enjoyed watching the short film about Masao Yamamoto’s work. The way he displays his shots, the way he talks about scale and size. The…
The Making of ‘Dogs in Cars’
A behind the scenes look at a wonderful series of shots. Enjoy.
Google Hangout with Trey Ratcliff & friends
Good chat today with Trey and a bunch of his regulars, for the ‘Variety Hour’ he does for Google Plus and YouTube. You can see a recording of the show on You Tube….
The Woodburytype: a ‘cast’ image, not a photograph…
Fascinating video here at The George Eastman House channel on YouTube, charting a little of the process of making WoodburyTypes. I know my way around a fair few of the old processes, having…
Street festival in my neighbourhood
The other night I spent an hour over the road from our flat, at a little street festival around the temple in Suzagamori. This was the area used – from about the mid…
Richard Avedon: Darkness and Light (1/9)
Richard Avedon is considered one of the foremost portrait and fashion photographers of the modern generation. His book ‘In The American West‘ was a substantial influence on my work in the 1980s, when…
Photo history ‘follow Friday’: Andreas Feininger
The second in our series of articles about iconic photographers who, if they were alive and had a Twitter account, you’d want to follow. Part Two of the video here Part Three of…
Potraits of Contemporary Photographers: Nobuyoshi Araki
This is Part One of a two-part film on Araki, from Contacts Vol. 2, Portraits of Contemporary Photographers. A project initiated by William Klein in 2000. It’s not him narrating….. I prefer to…
William Klein & the contact sheet
Gotta say, I like Winogrand but Klein is the man for me when it comes to American street photography of the 1950s and 60s. Not just his work but the man has an…
Shore on Eggleston
This was a bonus part of the DVD version of the documentary about William Eggleston “In the Real World’ and features an on-stage interview with Eggleston by photographer Stephen Shore. For those of…
July 24, 2014
Dhaya Dhaya — your photo all are nice
July 23, 2014
Scott Sisco — scary
July 23, 2014
Alfie Goodrich — Ha. :-) Once you've noticed them, you can't really avoid looking.
July 22, 2014
Giovanni Piliarvu — +Alfie Goodrich no, you don't have to. :)
July 22, 2014
Photo Mania Japan — この写 真今日のベスト写真の一枚とし て+Photo Mania Japanより選ばれた。ありがとう！(Giovanni Piliarvu)
July 21, 2014
George Pop — I was doing a photo walk in Yokohama yesterday too, what a coincidence.
