As you know we offer a variety of shipping options at different prices and service levels. This means that the most economic and flexible choice for your order is at the discretion of the customer and not forced on you. In the past it has been difficult to know in advance how much the shipping costs for your order would be. We have improved this by... 

The first impression you get from picking up and open Tomoko Sawada’s School Days is that while it is a standard, small sized photo book and specified as a paperback, the pages are thick cardboard pages like a children’s book. This gives the book a chunky feel, but also means that the number of pages and therefore the number of plates included... 

This ad for Fujifilm’s Fujica 35 Auto-M is from the back cover of the April, 1962 issue of Asahi Camera, and was “on sale now” as the red lettering says in the top left corner. The tag line plays up its magical quality by telling us “You don’t need to touch either the aperture ring or the shutter speed dial.” (Literally,... 

MURAKAMI Tomoe. Murakami was born in 1980 in Chiba, Japan, and is a graduate from the Art and Literature department of Waseda University (2004). She was awarded a Jun Miki Prize in 2004, and completed a residency at the Vermont Studio Center in 2006. Her work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group shows in Japan and abroad over the last four... 

Lens Culture has put up an interview with photographer Hiroh Kikai that was done by French curator and critic Marc Feustal, presumably conducted recently while Kikai was in Paris for the recently-concluded Paris Photo fair. I always appreciate photographers who are also articulate with the written word like Robert Adams, and have had a sense that Kikai,... 

Prompted by a several friendly personal encounters with their members, I have decided to join the Japan Realist Photographers Association (JRP). Given the size of the population of photographers in Japan, the JRP is surprisingly small, just under 1000 nationwide in 60 chapters. For a while I have been contemplating to become more officially networked... 

  Text and images by Christoph Hammann for Japan Exposures When I took up a new project this fall, I decided to try my hand at developing color negative film. This is supposed to be difficult and prone to developing errors. In fact, though I had bought some Fuji Pro800 rollfilm and a Naniwa Colorkit N C-41 developing kit earlier, I held them back... 

In celebration of the launch of Japan Exposures, we are offering all colour reversal films at a discount of 10% until the end of the year. All stock is fresh from manufacturer as per usual. Now is a good time to stock up for a colourful spring! ... 

This year’s Paris Photo photography fair gets under way tomorrow and you’d have to live under a rock not to know that this year the fair has selected Japan as it’s “foreign scene” of focus. Indeed, talking with various people this past week, you have to wonder what Japanese photographer is NOT going to Paris. Even those... 

Visit anywhere in Japan that shows even a hint of autumnal color this Fall, and you’ll probably see as many photographers as fallen leaves. The Japanese call this kouyou (literally red leaves or yellow leaves) and along with the cherry blossoms of Spring, it is the time when the cameras — everything from Mark II DLSRs to camera cellphones...