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Blog - ブロッグ

Blog - ブロッグ
  • After nearly a month waiting for approval from the powers-that-be at Apple, Beijing 2008 is now for sale on the iBookstore in 32 countries.  Pricing is very reasonable: $0.99 in the US, €0.49 in most of the Euro area and a level somewhere between these two everywhere else.  In other words, it is as cheap [...]

  • Today the latest samples of my book Disappearing Tokyo arrived from blurb.  I ordered the book with three different cover types – softcover, hardcover and imagewrap.  My preference is for the cheapest of these three options, the softcover.  It has the glossiest finish and is the easiest to open and read. The next stage will [...]

  • Last month I made my spectacular(ly bad) debut as a DJ at Shibuya’s Under Deer Lounge.  My invitation to DJ came courtesy of Ishitsubo-san, the lead guitar in VUMF.  After my set I snapped a few photos of the band, but I have to say the lighting at the venue was poor.  Nothing for the [...]

  • Today I had what I can only describe as the misfortune of purchasing the latest version of Lightroom.  I have become a big fan of Lightroom 3 since I started using it last year and I had heard the latest version boasted of improved noise reduction and raw processing.  Not only that, but the upgrade [...]

  • I am working on a new photographic project at the moment and I hope to add some photos from it to the site soon.  I am shooting on black and white film, something I haven’t done for a long time.  It’s still in a rather exploratory phase, so I reserve the right to abandon it [...]

  • The first stage of updating my website is now complete.  Most of my recent work has been added to the portfolio section and the basic layout is complete.  Enjoy.

  • I have added a gallery of photographs from the book “Disappearing Tokyo”.  The book is in the closing stages of production and will be pitched to publishers in the near future.

  • I have just added a gallery of photos from my Beijing 2008 series.  Beijing 2008 is coming soon to the Apple iBookstore as an interactive iPad book. The book is already available in softcover or ePub format from blurb

  • Welcome to my new site.  I will be adding new content rapidly over the next few days.

Inspiration - 感化

Inspiration - 感化
  • A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.

    Federico Fellini

  • I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.

    Roy Lichtenstein

  • Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

    Dorothea Lange

  • Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

    Jean-Luc Godard

  • Pictures must not be too picturesque.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

    Aristotle

  • I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice.

    Minor White

  • Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.

    Duane Michals

  • All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.

    Jean-Luc Godard

  • The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

    Susan Sontag