Kanako Sasaki was born in Sendai, Japan. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Ithaca College in New York in 2001, and in 2004 received a Master of Fine Arts degree in Photography from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. She also studied for two years at the Royal College of Art in London. Since 2001 Sasaki has been exhibiting her work... 

UPDATED 7 Mar 2010 (see below) Fujifilm has announced some changes in their product line affecting the following film products: Neopan 400 (Presto) 120 size is discontinued with immediate effect (does not affect availability in 135 format) 12 and 24 exposure rolls for 35mm film will be gradually phased out Acros 100 in 11×14 size (special... 

Cosmicar 12.5mm/1.4 Television lens adapted for Micro 4/3 We are pleased to announce the addition of Micro Four-Thirds (M4/3) T mount/C mount lens connector S in addition to last year’s Micro Four-Thirds (M4/3) T mount/C mount lens connector L, both made by MS Optical. Using C mount lenses on Micro Four-Thirds digital camera bodies has become... 

Tsukasa Yokozawa was born in Nagoya, Japan in 1971 and is currently based in New York City. He graduated from the Tokyo College of Photography in Yokohama in 1996, where he also taught from 2000 to 2007. His work has been exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide, including at the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo and Deichtorhallen in Hamburg.... 

Record No. 13, by Daido Moriyama The latest iteration of Daido Moriyama’s “Record”, number 13, arrived here at Japan Exposures a few weeks ago and upon diving into it’s black and white goodness, it was immediately apparent that there was something not quite the same with this issue. Could it be the number 13 working its unlucky... 

Mao Ishikawa is an Okinawan photographer who has been documenting her homeland and the contentious presence of the U.S. military there for over 36 years. Her uncompromising photography work looking at the lives of “Kin-Town Women” — that is, those women who “befriend” American marines in the Kin entertainment district that... 

Profile by John Sypal for Japan Exposures Aya Fujioka’s photos are not those which espouse a refinement or a celebration of reality. The term “investigation” is inappropriate when attempting to relate them to any sort of exploration of the World. She is one of the few photographers whose pictures are perhaps best seen as evidence... 

Aya Fujioka was born in Hiroshima, and attended Nihon University’s College of Art. She has been exhibiting her work since 1996, and in 2005 she won the Visual Arts Photo Award given to promising young photographers and judged by Daido Moriyama, Yoshihiko Ueda, and Masato Seto, among others. The prize was awarded for her work entitled Comment... 

I Don't Sleep, by Aya Fujioka. Published by Akaaka, 2009. Japan Exposures’ contributors John Sypal and Dan Abbe recently had several online chat sessions about Japanese photographer Aya Fujioka and her new book, 私は眠らない, or I Don’t Sleep, published late last year by Akaaka Art Publishing. They were nice enough to send the... 

Ken Kitano, from Flow and Fusion -- Tokyo Dome Profile by Yu Hidaka for Japan Exposures. Please also see our extended gallery of Kitano’s work. Note: click on images to see large The photographs of Ken Kitano are both extremely concrete and highly philosophical at the same time. Kitano, whom the critic and curator Vince Aletti picked as one of...