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Tag Archives: Tokyo
Review: Tokyo-e @ Le Bal
Le Bal‘s Japanese summer season continues this week with the opening of the exhibition Tokyo-e, which brings together work by Yutaka Takanashi and Keizo Kitajima with a series by an almost complete unknown photographer, Yukichi Watabe, a photojournalist who worked in Tokyo. The three groups of work on show are very different, related only through [...]
Posted in Asian photography, Events, Exhibition reviews, Japanese photography, Photo-books Also tagged Araki, Camp, Keizo Kitajima, Moriyama, Provoke, Yukichi Watabe, Yutaka Takanashi 4 Comments
Book of the Week #4: Michael Wolf, Tokyo Compression
Michael Wolf has just released two new books, Asoue and Tokyo Compression, and I have to admit to having a personal favourite. Tokyo Compression brings together a series of images taken in the Tokyo metro during rush hour. Through a series of portraits of trapped commuters, compressed into jam-packed metal carriages, the book brings to [...]
Posted in Book of the Week, European photography, Photo-books Also tagged metro, Michael Wolf, portraits, subway, Werner Herzog 13 Comments
Guest ‘curator’ on Bite! magazine
A few months ago, Diederik Meijer asked me to guest ‘curate’ (staying true to my post on curating, I have to use those quote marks since this is more editing than curating… but I digress) a week of Japanese photography over on Bite! magazine. It has taken far longer than I thought it would to [...]
Posted in eyecurious News, Japanese photography, Magazines Also tagged Bite!, Koji Onaka Leave a comment
Tokyo highlights
eyecurious has made a slow start to blogging in 2010. However, this was due to a great, albeit far too short trip to Tokyo. I was in Japan preparing two exhibitions that will open in Stockholm, Sweden and in Cologne, Germany in March of this year (more on these in the coming weeks) and laying [...]
A slope with a view
There is a great story in yesterday’s New York Times on a small neighbourhood group in Tokyo, the Society to Protect Nippori’s Fujimizaka, that are trying to preserve one of the capital’s last remaining views of Mount Fuji. This is a classic David versus Goliath story, where a handful of OAPs from Nippori are struggling to [...]
Naoya Hatakeyama: a book and an exhibition