Category Archives: Japan
Toshihiro Oshima
Toshihiro Oshima is like a flickr celebrity with his own fan base. As with most flickr accounts, it takes some clicking to unearth some gems from the amount of images posted. I found this series of landscapes taken using a Holga from his portfolio to be the more interesting images. © Toshihiro Oshima, 2007 He [...]
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Hiroe Kobayashi
Hiroe Kobayash photographs visual poetry. She says: It is said that photography performed from the heart captures the truth. My quest is to cast light on the yuragi filtered through the layers of my experience. The end result is a world of mystery, images that conjure up the sumi-e ink drawings of Chinese painting. TOP [...]
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Mamoru Tsukada
In the world of Mamoru Tsukada, photography exists as a medium to relate himself to the world and its invisible structures. In Spectre, the subject matter is not apparent at first glance – we see bold splashes of color, abstract shapes… TOP TO BOTTOM, Spectre, 2006 © Mamoru Tsukada He explains: “The new works ‘SPECTER’ [...]
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Rachi Akira
Rachi Akira is a recent graduate of UK’s The Arts Institute at Bournemouth. His work is deceptively simple and works on many levels. Akira: “something poetic can be political, and something political can be poetic” TOP TO BOTTOM, Field (6×7), 2004-2007 © Rachi Akira Pure and simple like a haiku. His portfolio can be seen [...]
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Yoshinori Kon
Yoshinori Kon creates images that contain hidden truths and meanings, while having strong overtones of Japanese culture and mysticism. They remind me of Jeff Wall and Gregory Crewdson, although not as cinematic as the latter’s. Scenery with a Tunnel, 2006 © Yoshinori Kon Oku-Nikko Ectoplasm, 2006 © Yoshinori Kon First Love, 2008 © Yoshinori Kon [...]
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Behind Tokyo’s Door
A transvestite posing for a picture at the underground fetish party, “Tokyo Decadence”, at the Stylish Club in Roppongi. © Pawel Jaszczuk Pawel Jaszczuk is a Polish photographer based in Tokyo, Japan. For his series, Behind Tokyo’s Door, Pawel documented the going ons and romps in underground fetish parties in Tokyo. His other series, Shibari [...]
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Hideaki Uchiyama
For more than a decade, Hideaki Uchiyama has been capturing the underbelly of Tokyo city on film. His images resembles sets from anime/sci-fi films, showing us some incredible pictures of what lies beneath a truly modern city. From Metropolis: Uchiyama has discovered tunnels to a 6th-century tomb and a Kamakura-period mine. He has photographed WWII-era [...]
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Sakiko Nomura
Japanese photographer Sakiko Nomura goes beyond the facades of her subjects and reaches deep into their psyche; revealing hidden fears, sadness and tenderness. The sitter is stripped naked literally and figuratively, baring their souls for all to see. Untitled, 2004/2006 © Sakiko Nomura Untitled, 2004/2006 © Sakiko Nomura Untitled, 2004/2006 © Sakiko Nomura Untitled, 1999/2005 [...]
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Hiroshi Watanabe
Hiroshi Watanabe was born in Sapporo, Japan. After the completion of his art degree, he moved to Los Angeles and spent many years working on TV productions before picking up the camera again in 2000. Since then, he has gone on to numerous exhibitions, awards and published several books along the way. His images are [...]
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Shunsuke Iwata