In his first column for SNOW Magazine, PMKFA ponders the fate of failed local manufacturing in a growing global economy, as witnessed on the Mitsubishi-owned island of Gunkanjima.
CNNGo interviews Manabu Numata, a Tokyo-based photographer whose most famous work covers the world of host clubs.
In this guest column, Edward Harrison introduces us to his upcoming book, Idle Idol, covering the wonderful world of Japanese 3D character mascots.
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The Meeting Modernity series of found photographs is the focus of Néojaponisme’s first traveling exhibition. Recently unearthed outside of the city of Sano in Tochigi-ken, this series of pictures documents Japan as it engaged with modernization and commercial photography in the Meiji and Taishō Periods. The series is comprised of portrait photography in particular.
Tokyo-based photographer and zine maker Alin Huma teams up with Dan Hards to produce a new PDF booklet, 000_00.
Cameron Allan McKean posts a portrait of artists (from left) Kajsa (Åbäke), Maki, and Yuri Suzuki, who collaborated recently for an exhibition at Clear Gallery.
“All my films start with places- cities, deserts. But then in the process of filmmaking, these places step into the background. The characters and stories become paramount, and finally the only parameter of the movie is the truth of that story, and the truth of the characters overriding everything else. With photography I can reverse the process, and I can leave these places up front. They are what the pictures are about.” – Wim Wenders
Take an old photo processing lab, bring a group of photographers together for monthly shows — the Araiyakushi Photographers Society (APS) — and you get the 35 Minutes gallery.
TABlog reviews Tokyo-based German artist Nica Junker‘s “Silent Neighbours” exhibition, which was held at Combine in Nakameguro.