When I was travelling in Europe in October I saw the author of a book being interviewed on television. He had accumulated a list of 1000 events or situations that would give you an emotional uplift or generally happy feeling, just to remind ourselves that within all the bad news we see there are also positive occasions, even though they can often be... 

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... 

As I have written a short while ago I am busy preparing some prints for a small exhibition. After good results with the Fuji TONE Gaslight contact printing paper it was time now to produce some display quality fibre prints. I have not printed on fibre paper for at least ten years so was anxious to get things done on time. I need not have worried. To... 

Prompted by a several friendly personal encounters with their members, I have decided to join the Japan Realism Photographers Association (JRP). Given the size of the population of photographers in Japan, the JRP is surprisingly small, just under 1000 nationwide in 60 chapters. For a while I have been contemplating to become more officially networked... 

This is an exhibition by our friend and close neighbour Saito-san, who has has depicted life around the lake Teganuma in Abiko, Chiba pref. (our hometown). Teganuma and Abiko became famous in the Taisho era (1912-1926) when many famous Japanese writers and artists lived in the town and, sadly, once more in Showa period due to becoming the most polluted...