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Using Tokyo As My Studio: A Shoot With Ayuko Izumi
A couple of weeks ago I was approached by dancer and swordswoman, Ayuko Izumi, to shoot some portraits of her on location in Tokyo. She wanted a mix of styles, some in kimono,…
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The Ten-Minute Fashion Shoot
Never one to pass up the chance of a quick shoot, Shinyong posed for a few quick snaps yesterday. We’d just finished a meeting over at a friend’s cafe in Asagaya, so with…
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Tokyo Has Its Biggest Snowfall For 45 Years
Saturday saw the biggest drop of snow in the capital since 1969 which, coincidentally, was the year of my birth. I went out for a walk about 2pm starting at Hammamatsucho and walking up…
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New workshops, walks and events for 2014
A very happy new year to you all. Just in case you thought I may have died, I haven’t. Last year was a tremendously successful year for me but that meant it was…
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Stekki Magazine: Tohoku workshop special edition
The second edition of Stekki, my online magazine for lovers of photography and Japan, is available for free viewing and download now. You can see it online at issuu.com here. Or you can…
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October 10, 2013Getting the cover of United Airlines magazine
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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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January 25, 2013
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January 28, 2013How a Bruno Aveillan book led to a day of giggles & some great photos
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January 17, 2013
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January 14, 2013
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October 27, 2012
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October 23, 2012
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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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April 7, 2013Photography workshop in Tohoku: end April, 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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July 13, 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…
April 17, 2014
Kelli Seeger Kim — Oh, +Alfie Goodrich - I love that! And I'm not dealing as gracefully as you,...
April 14, 2014
Debdwi Afan — May he have a very happy one!
April 13, 2014
Emi Nakajima — 素晴らしい写真をありがとう。感動しました。
April 9, 2014
George Pop — We should get together and talk, according to your business card you live near me, I'm also in Minami-oi, Shinagawa...
April 9, 2014
Alfie Goodrich — RFTW - memories churned of one-hit wonder 80s or 90s pop music with that comment, +
April 9, 2014
John Arnett — This one could easily read "Ready For The World"...
April 8, 2014
Nigal Raymond — Great photo of a pensive moment combined with nice clean typography. Love it.
April 8, 2014
Steve Jaszczak — Looks great!
