Platinum prints by Michiko Kon, on view until April 18th at Michel Soskine in Madrid. Tweet... 

Ferdinand Brueggemann is back blogging at Japan-Photo.info after a year’s absence. Tweet... 

I have missed it last year, for some reason, so wanted to make a special effort to see it this year: the Tokyo Photo Imaging Expo 2009, a consumer-oriented photo trade fair held in the Tokyo Big Sight complex on the Odaiba artificial island, a little off the centre of town. Here are some impressions and very personal subjective highlights: When you... 

gallery KAIDO utility pole sign -- photo by Tyler Ensrude Text and images by Tyler Ensrude for Japan Exposures Have you ever been to a gallery and felt as though the reception almost didn’t want you there or could care less that you entered the room? Even in Japan, a country known for it’s outstanding customer service, some places can still hold... 

Shinagawa, Tokyo, Contax G1 on DNP Centuria 200 We have been notified of a price increase of the popular Fujifilm Natura 1600 colour negative film. This film has been our best selling film for several years now and its popularity is founded on its great performance under low light conditions where it really excels. And you don’t need a Natura... 

Kozo Miyoshi was born in Chiba Prefecture in 1947, and graduated from the Department of Photography of Nihon University in 1971. Over the last 30 years he has had numerous solo exhibitions both here in Japan and abroad. He has also photographed extensively abroad, most notably in the American Southwest, work that has been collected in the publications... 

Japan Exposures is pleased to be able to offer three rare Kozo Miyoshi catalogs in our bookstore, including INDEX, a book and CD-ROM set that catalogues over 20 of Miyoshi’s major projects dating back to 1972. Only 300 copies of this catalog were printed, and we have some of the last remaining copies for sale. In addition, we have limited copies... 

When the E. Leitz Company introduced the first practical 35mm camera in 1925, it was an instant world-wide sensation. The Leitz Camera — Leica –, paved the way for a completely new way of creating photographs. At that time the Carl Zeiss Foundation of Jena, Germany, was already a well-established company with almost 50 years of optical history... 

An exhibit at Stephen Daiter Gallery in Chicago of old friends Marvin E. Newman and Yasuhiro Ishimoto. (Via) Tweet... 

This March both of the major Japan photo awards, the Domon Ken and Ihei Kimura Awards, were announced. The awards have slightly different focuses, with the Domon Ken prize usually going to older photographers with a large body of work already to their name, while the Ihei Kimura prize tends to reward photographers who show exceptionally bright promise....