Text by Stacy Oborn for Japan Exposures Tokihiro Sato’s work may well be that which I am most drawn towards that I have never seen in person. Usually a devoted advocate of the book form especially in regards to photography, Sato is one of those rare photographers whose execution and installation are all part of a piece; he has a thorough and encompassing... 

Tokihiro Sato was born in 1957 in Yamagata Prefecture. He graduated in 1983 with a MFA in sculpture from Tokyo National University of the Arts. He is well known in Japan and in the rest of the world for his exploration of making photographs of landscapes or common spaces using very long exposures. He proceeded to the construction of various kinds of... 

Tokihiro Sato was born in 1957 in Yamagata Prefecture. He graduated in 1983 with a MFA in sculpture from Tokyo National University of the Arts. He is well known in Japan and in the rest of the world for his exploration of making photographs of landscapes or common spaces using very long exposures. He proceeded to the construction of various kinds of... 

As you know we have been offering lens modification services for Leica mounts via MS Optical for a while now. We have recently received many requests from folks out there who would like to have a Carl Zeiss Contax G lens on their Leica M mount camera but don’t already own the lenses. As an alternative to sending us a G lens for conversion, we... 

We have just received notice from Rayqual that the Leica M-M4/3 adapter for Leica M lenses will be available on the 26th of January. Once we are able to ship you should have it within a matter of days afterwards. (Possibly even for the rest of Chinese new year holidays! EMS shipping within major Asian locations takes about one day, however bear in mind... 

Photo by John Sypal On the weekend we visited Roonee photo gallery in Shinjuku where the closing exhibition of Shintaro Sato’s workshop was held. Over the course of ten weeks the participants got to grips with their loaned 4×5 cameras and worked towards this culminating show, which also included our current cover artist Igarashi-san. In... 

A couple of weeks ago I was flipping through the latest issue of the photo magazine PHaT, which stands for Pretty Hot And Tempting. (Since the magazine’s cover always features without fail a fetching female model, I wonder if this double entendre is intentional or not.) Although not exclusively about Japanese photographers, on the whole it’s... 

Takayuki Igarashi was born in 1977 in Yamagata prefecture, and currently lives in Tokyo. He graduated from Tokyo University of Science in 2004 with a Mathematics degree. Last year, he graduated from the School of Photograph | Picture | Image, which is part of Waseda University’s Art and Architecture School. The above image shot in Tokyo’s... 

Text and images by Barry Kawa for Japan Exposures Recently, a young Japanese woman brought in an old shiny camera to my office, a curious look on her face. It was her grandfather’s 1950s Konica IIA, a rangefinder. She said her grandmother had wanted her to have it, an old antique that her grandfather, who had passed away recently, had loved using. The... 

We are pleased to be able to offer for sale adapters by the specialist Japanese adapter manufacturer Rayqual. Rayqual lens adapters are finely engineered high precision devices manufactured to tight tolerances MADE IN JAPAN, so rest assured that they will not compromise the high quality of your lenses or cameras. To start things off we offer the new...