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Single photography versus a series of photography

I think none of these two answers are the ultimate answers, if a single photo can speak by itself, it is fine, but if you need several photography to illustrate a story, then it is fine as well. What really matters in the end is the result no? I mean whatever it needsto bring to […]

It's never too late to learn!

It's never too late to learn My way to black and white photography I am in my 40`s now and started photography only three years ago. It is quite old for starting photography (or any art) compared with photographers who grew-up with a camera in hand. Inside the photographic knowledge, there is the practice and […]

Shin Yanagisawa - Untitled

Shin Yanagisawa As I mentionned, Yanagisawa did not published many books in his life. This one is a retrospective of his work. The concept is interesting, basically we follow him as he goes through Japan starting from the North then going step by step to the South. Untitled We have mostly landscapes here, sometimes urban […]

What Is A (Very) Good Photography?

Let my try to answer to this difficult question; potentially very controversial but here is just my humble point of view, you can of course disagree with me. First, I would say it should be well composed. I mean that everything that should be there, are there, at the right place ; this is often […]

My Experience Printing In A Darkroom

I hate post-processing. Frankly, I find it boring and hazardous. Boring as the tools you have at the glance of your hand offer so many options that you don’t know which ones are necessary and with which tool you should start. Hazardous because you can spend many long hours not even being able to decide […]

Should you shoot alone?

For me the answer is direct: NO. I think you need to be 2, for me that's the perfect number to go walking and go around the place. Many famous photogrpahers have somebody with them when they go shooting: Mary Ellen Mark, Bruce Gilden, Alec Soth, Eugene Smith, the list is long and as you […]

My Ricoh

My Ricoh Apart of my medium format, I own a Ricoh GR2. It is also a fantastic little machine. First, it is very light. It has small dimensions and can fit in your pocket; I have although a neck strap and a hand strap but it is just in case I have to take a […]

10 Things Todd Hido Teached Me About Photography

Not everything has been done before. Go and do your work. You can see where it leads and how it fits once it’s made. I see things differently in the dark. Night is a quiet time without as much going on. The world moves slower. Lots of things disappear into the darkness. Ambiguity is one […]

Digital vs Analog - 5 Reasons To Choose

5 reasons to shoot digital and not analog You have a lot of choices of brand new camera from reasonably cheap to very expensive that are coming every year. You can even shoot with your smartphone. One can shoot, shoot and shoot, only your SIM card will limit you but it usually means thousands of […]

Pentax 67 shots

Pentax 67 Few months ago I bought myself a Medium format camera, a Pentax 67 with a 90mm lens (46MM for 35mm equivalent). It is a beast, a monster with more than 2kg of weight. Medium Format camera I used to have as medium format a Rolleiflex so 6x6, square picture format, it is beautiful, […]

Ten photo books that I love

Ten photo books that I love Here is my list of my favorites 10 photo books. I will try to explain them but from the perspective on how they are different from each other, what make them so special compared with others. Later I will make a more detail and special review of each one […]

Shinya Arimoto - Tokyo Circulation

Shinya Arimoto One of my favorite book. The book is huge and it is protected with a cover that make it even more impressive. But the good thing, apart being a beautiful object, is that the photos are huge also; so it deserves the medium format of the cameras that Arimoto have used (Rolleiflex 2.8F […]

Todd Hido - Excerpts From Silver Meadows

Todd Hido My favorite book from my favorite photographer. Everything in there is very cinematic. I just don't know how to describe his work apart from this word, cinematic, the images are so much talking to me, from an emotional perspective, not a specific one, but just the one that moves your guts, blow your […]

Trent Parke - Minutes to Midnight

Trent Parke One of my first book I bought. Hence maybe one of the influence on my work, specially nowadays. Minutes to Midnight His book is made after a road trip of about 90.000 km in two years. So in a way it has a bit a road trip atmosphere and pictures related. The photos […]

Autumn leafs

Autumn leafs. Today I just went outside, with no real intention to shoot but I took my camera, again I shooted a part of the session in colors. Yes I said the last time that I will not be for a while but colors you can find in Japan during Autumn are just extraordinary, you […]

HIELO Band photoshoot

Last week, a band called HIELO, a rock band from Osaka, invited me to photoshoot them. We spend most of the day together, trying to get the best pictures for them to promote themselves, as they don't have yet a website, nor any materials for flyers etc... This was a very new experience for me. […]

BRUCE GILDEN: ANOTHER JAPAN, UNTOLD & AGITATED

BRUCE GILDEN: ANOTHER JAPAN, UNTOLD & AGITATED Bruce Gilden went to Japan at the end of the nineties bringing with him his recognizable style: black and white (at that time), sometimes really up close, and flash; as well as his interest for the alternative, the different. Gilden is a close-up artist. He is in the […]

Kinosaki no Odori

Some old works

New pictures in Mitani Monogatari

New pictures in Mitani Monogatari. I decided to make evolve the Mitani Monogatari project to a new stage. I will include chapters represented by the seasons that makes Mitani leaving at the pace of the countryside. Obviously at the moment there is winter and now I have just added spring. Hopefully I will be able […]

I changed my life

Yes, I changed my life. I was a salaryman, freshly arrived in Japan in 2014, I work in the Automotive industry in Marketing. And frankly this is not what I can do, at least, at this stage. What I mean by stage, is depression. I always suffered from depression but this time it is really […]

Bokeh Or Not Bokeh?

Difficult question for some people no brainer for other, the question is quiet controversial in the photographic world. Should I shoot with a small aperture or a large one, which effect I want to give to my picture or which is my taste in term of final rendering ? The last one is the most critical, […]

My Experience Printing In A Darkroom

I hate post-processing. Frankly, I find it boring and hazardous. Boring as the tools you have at the glance of your hand offer so many options that you don’t know which ones are necessary and with which tool you should start. Hazardous because you can spend many long hours not even being able to decide […]

Why I Shoot People So Close

...I shoot people closely, I mean real close, only few centimeters from their face to my camera. But why I want to do it ? Why I shoot people so close ? First my camera is a 28mm wide angle camera so I have no choice but to be real close if I really want to […]

Why Black And White Fits The City Of Tokyo So Well

Tokyo is grey to my perception. Yes, you can find some bits of color here and there. But they seem lost and faded through chaos, not helping for the harmony. You could tell me: Then why not taking chaos in color? Well, add chaos to chaos, and to me, it ends up to a no-taste type […]

Portrait

Skies and Lines

Indeed it is all about Skies and Lines. So it is all about, geometrical figures of lines between the skies and some lines you can find around.