Mitsuru Fujita was born in Tokyo in 1934. He quit a job in advertising to become a freelance photographer in 1961, eventually setting up his own commercial photo agency called Fujitaman in 1966 which he would run for over 40 years. During this time he also taught photography part time at Tokyo College of Photography and at Musashino Art University.... 

The collection of scenes that Mitsuru Fujita has assembled into the collection Zaisyo feature not a single discernible human figure. This hardly would seem something worth mentioning, for despite the relatively high population density of Japan, any photographer with a car and a willingness to leave the urban areas could find those vistas devoid of humans... 

Zaisyo, by Mitsuru Fujita -- Published by Tosei-sha, May 2010 Review by Peter Evans for Japan Exposures. Z aisyo means something like the country or one’s country. The photographer is Mitsuru Fujita, and this is his second photobook. The book tells us that he was born in 1934, became a freelance photographer in 1961, set up a company called Fujitaman... 

Tamotsu Kido was born in 1974 in Mie Prefecture. He studied oil painting at Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music. Despite the lack of a formal course in photography at the university, Kido soon transitioned to producing photographs instead of paintings under the guidance of the artist Nobuya Hitsuda. Kido’s photographs explore... 

The lens is now sold out, please see here for details on the second production run. The simplest optical design that is capable of correcting all of the seven Seidel aberrations over a wide field of view is the Cooke triplet, developed by H. Dennis Taylor in 1893. It is named after the optical company in York, England, for which Taylor worked at...