I spent a whole day, on Wednesday working with one of my students, in my studio. He did 99.9% of the shooting. I just took a few shots at the end of each session. Mainly I was there to do … Continue reading
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Re-energising this blog
It’s been a long time since I regularly updated this blog. That’s changing as of today. One of the main reasons I lapsed was that, for a long time, I’d been using Google Plus to cross-post pics to this blog. … Continue reading
‘Cup ramen shooting’: five minutes in Shibuya with Norie
Over the last couple or three years, I’ve done a few of what I call ‘cup ramen shoots’. The idea is basically to shoot a fashion set in about the time it would take to unwrap, add boiling water to … Continue reading
The empty stage: Kinugawa haikyo
One more from last week’s outing to Kinugawa and one of the haikyo [abandoned buildings] there. This old enkan [or enka singing/karaoke ballroom] was remarkable: the stage, the curtains, the atmosphere of everything that had happened there over its years … Continue reading
Model and haikyo, Part 1: Azusa in Kinugawa
Last weekend I took a crowd of passionate photographers up to the Nikko area for some haikyo [abandoned building] action. We also took along Azusa, a model I work with a fair bit here in Tokyo. My plan all along … Continue reading
Azusa peering from her parka coat, Yoyogi Park, Tokyo
Azusa is coming along on Sunday’s workshop in Nikko so I thought that, after the studio session we did with +Gwenny Ruiz last Saturday, we’d head for Yoyogi Park and see what we could do with a bit of autumn leaf action … Continue reading