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October 2007

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• Bangladesh, Documentary, Photography

  GMB Akash

  10.15.07 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  2007 must have been a good year for Akash so far. He garnered first prize at the Gordon Parks Photography Competition for his work on child labor in Bangladesh, first place at the Asia Press Photo contest and was also listed as one of PDN’s 30 photographers to watch.
  Accolades aside, his work focuses on social […]

• Japan, Photography

  Lieko Shiga

  10.14.07 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Japanese-born Lieko Shiga lives and works in the Netherlands now. Her stunningly eerie images from the series Lilly manages to create an unreal sensation of being in viewers. Drawing inspiration from paranormal photographs popular in the early days of photography, Lieko shot these images of residents staying in a block of council flats in East […]

• Japan, Photography

  Masumi Kawamura

  10.12.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  I find Masumi Kawamura’s works to be ever so melancholic, hinting at hidden layers of fear and longing.

  [all images © Masumi Kawamura]
  I like her stuff perhaps due to the many similarities between our works. It’s hard to quantify but perhaps somewhere far away, we dreamt the same dream.
  I’m totally diggin’ music from the Icelandic […]

• Japan, Photography

  Noguchi Rika

  10.11.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Japanese-born Noguchi Rika now lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Her works have a quiet truth about them; straddling between existentialism and mysticism.
  From Metropolis:
  In Noguchi’s images, we are taken to places we have seen before, to ideas we understand, and we’re asked to stare and see them as she sees them—images of the latent possibilities […]

• Japan, Photography

  Rinko Kawauchi

  10.09.07 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  I believe that Rinko Kawauchi is one of Japan’s more recognized female photographers. Her dreamy square-format images are delightful and uplifting to look at. She manages to capture beauty in the most mundane in life: an egg, a watermelon, an ant. It’s like looking at the world through a child’s eyes, ever so curious. There […]

• Japan, Photography

  Junko Takahashi

  10.09.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Tokyo-based photographer, Junko Takahashi, recently published a book of photographs on receptionists.
  Junko on her work:
  “In today’s society, most people exist, consciously or unconsciously, in a variety of organizations and organized spaces. So, if I could photograph those people who can usually be found in such spaces, the results would interestingly reflect reality.”

  [all images © […]

• Blogging

  Vote for Shane

  10.09.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Shane Lavalette who runs a wonderful blog on photography is seeking votes to win a USD$10,000 scholarship for college students who blog. And boy, the competition is tough! Even more so for Shane who runs a fine art photography blog, with a much smaller audience than the other contenders.
  So do him a favor, vote for […]

• Japan, Photography

  Hiromix

  10.08.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Hiromi Toshigawa, otherwise known as Hiromix, redefined the way female photographers are viewed in Japan. In 1995, her series, Seventeen Girl Days, won Canon’s 11th New Cosmos of Photography award. It provided viewers an unconventional look at the life of a teenage girl, random moments captured and edited into a 36-page photobook. In September 1996, […]

• Japan, Photography

  Ninagawa Mika

  10.06.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Ninagawa Mika’s palette of highly saturated color threatens to make your eyes bleed from its beauty and grandiosity. I first encountered her Goldfish series a few months back but did not notice who made them. I’m glad to have chanced upon her site today.

  All images © Nanigawa Miwa
  She recently had her directorial debut for Sakuran, […]

• China, Photography

  Wu Qi

  10.05.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  I particularly like this set of images taken at night by Wu Qi.

  © Wu Qi

  © Wu Qi

  © Wu Qi

  © Wu Qi

  © Wu Qi
  More images can be seen here.
  I have this propensity to photograph at night too. I guess shooting at night has its own thrills, especially when results are often so unpredictable.
  Apologies for not […]

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