My first encounter with Hiroshi Sugimoto’s work was in a 1980s compilation of Japanese modern art featuring his movie theatre and seascape works. Not surprisingly, it took me quite a while to wrap my own mind around his visions. What is fascinating about Sugimoto’s photographs is that even when looking at work from 20 or 30 years ago, it... 

This being the New Year’s holiday season in Japan, the bookstores seem to have been taken over by large displays of every manner of 2009 calendars. Although there are a few tastefully designed ones, as well the old Hokusai and Hiroshige standbys, there are also disturbingly large amounts of “Lighthouses of New England” types as well. The... 

We would like to wish all readers, friends, contributors and customers a happy year end season. Christmas is virtually over in Japan with decorations being removed from today preparing for the real holiday which is Japanese New Year. Like Christmas in the West, the country will come to a stand-still next week while we join with our families for some... 

I‘ve recently had the fortunate opportunity to acquire for myself, and for the bookstore, three lovely photo books by Akihide Tamura, Nao Tsuda, and Toshio Shibata. These are the kind of photo books you want to carry with you all the time, to show anyone with a smidgen of interest in photography or quality publishing, anyone who loves looking... 

We recently ran out of signed copies of Shintaro Sato’s Tokyo Twilight Zone, currently our best selling book. Fortunately, Sato-san was kind enough to sign some more copies for us, and these have now arrived in stock. Sato-san told us recently that Seigensha, his publisher, is doing a second printing of his book (our in stock copies are first... 

Masashi Otomo was born in 1978 in Hokkaido, Japan. He graduated from Tokyo Visual Arts College in 1999 and has been a member of the photographers’ gallery since 2004. The above image comes from Otomo’s Northern Lights 3 series of landscapes taken on islands near Okinawa. Tweet... 

We are pleased to publish the first book of what we hope to be an ongoing series of books by photographers in a Japan context. The series is called 10 x 2 and the idea is relatively simple — to present a series of 10 photos each by two different photographers. To kick off the series, the photographers in this case are myself and Dirk Rösler,... 

Text and images by Christoph Hammann for Japan Exposures Germany is full of Christmas fairs this time of the year. They are to be found in every larger town and even in some villages. Visually, they are an assault of colored lights, vivid vendor‘s stalls and people mingling and socializing while sipping Glühwein (mulled wine) and nibbling Lebkuchen... 

It’s been over ten years that I have had any of my photos displayed in public and I have to say that it felt great to bring a creative process of taking, selecting and printing an image to an end by publicly displaying it. This morning we prepared the venue for the show by arranging and hanging the photos. The venue is a Citizen’s Culture... 

Nobuyoshi Araki’s recent Koushoku Painting show at Rathole Gallery (October 17 – December 7, 2008) featured 10 very large silver gelatin black and white prints that Araki had then painted over with various colors. Most of the photos depicted different models in various states of bondage, or “kinbaku” as it is known in Japanese....