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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Miwako Iga’s Madame Cucumber uses toy dolls as models to depict various scenes of society and family. The dolls in Iga’s works are cheap, colorful, and emotionless. However, they are in a situation which represents serious and antagonizing aspect of life, which is the reality of our modern society. Such a gap evokes laughter and [...]
Shomei Tomatsu, Untitled, Tokyo, 1969. From the series Protest. © Shomei Tomatsu Intrigued by Japanese photographers? Bewildered by how they see things? Then Marc Feustel’s Eyes of an Island may interest you. Christmas may be over but the end of the year means that your birthday would be coming soon. =) Lens culture has got [...]
[all images © respective owners] The 8th annual Ueno Hikoma Awards, a photography contest organized by the Kyushu Sangyo University aims to discover and nurture young photographers. This year, it saw 1758 works in the adults section and 2309 entries in the high school/junior high school section. [via TAB] The winning works can be found [...]
Sato Shintaro’s large format pictures of Japan’s cityscapes at night are pretty interesting. His entire series was shot from emergency exit stairs, of which he says: I am fascinated by the power of unconsciousness of townscape when looking down from a little higher point. The town is constructed by the necessity, not for the purpose [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
