Aug. 30-Nov. 13 Portraiture is much more than simply capturing smiles. Dusseldorf-based contemporary photographer Thomas Ruff's giant, deliberately expressionless photos truly embody this sentiment. As Ruff's first full retrospective in Japan, the exhibition showcases 125 works, drawn from 18 series, including his early work "Interieurs" and ...
Alfred Wertheimer, the photographer whose portraits of Elvis Presley documented the birth of a music legend, has died. Wertheimer, who was 85, died of natural causes at his New York apartment, said Chris Murray, who owns Washington, D.C's Govinda Gallery, which counts Wertheimer among its ...
Photographer Bunyo Ishikawa, who documented the Vietnam War and its aftermath over several decades, has been marking the 50th anniversary of his first trip to that country with a special exhibition. Bunyo Ishikawa, 76, showed some 50 photos at an exhibition Titled "Senso to Heiwa: Vietnam ...
Dominic Nahr, a photojournalist with Magnum Photos, feels even more horrified in Fukushima Prefecture than he does in such conflict-ravaged countries as East Timor or Somalia. Still, the 30-year-old keeps returning to the radiation-hobbled prefecture to take shots of residents and former workers at the ...
Noriko Hayashi, a photojournalist based in Tokyo, spent four months in Kyrgyzstan last year to document the mysterious bride kidnappings in the Central Asian country. In early September, Hayashi, 29, became the first Japanese photographer to win the Visa d'or feature award at the Visa ...
Fifty-year-old Shoichi Ono has scaled Mount Fuji every year for the past nine years, spending a total of more than 80 days on the mountain, photographing views from the top such as the rising sun and dynamic cloud formations. On why he is so attracted ...
The idea of getting old scares most of us. We don't want to think about getting wrinkles, becoming bedridden or succumbing to Alzheimer's disease. Still, we must come to terms with the fact that growing old is a reality for all of us lucky ...
In 2008, Toyokazu Nagano, like proud parents do, started taking pictures of his daughters: eating breakfast, playing outdoors — slices of everyday life. However, for each candid image he took, he was vexed by missing another perfect moment.
Okinawan photographer Hiroaki Yamashiro has captured his prefecture's culture, nature and the struggle of its people against the U.S. military presence for more than four decades. The culmination of those years is now on view at the Japan Newspaper Museum in Yokohama. The 64-year-old former lensman ...
Misaki Matsui shed a tear as she stood in a vineyard in Southern California, viewing the same scenery captured in one of her late grandfather's photos. "I felt like I was able to unite with (her grandfather and great-grandfather), who were there about 100 years ...
It was a single visit to Kenya in 1972 that completely changed Michio Hiraiwa's philosophy on life. He fell in love with the country, and visited there 150 times over the past 40 years. Once a workaholic, Hiraiwa says he now leads a stress-free ...
Uchujin, aka Adrian Storey, a British photographer and filmmaker based in Tokyo, drolly explains his rather unusual business moniker: "I'd rather be an alien than an outsider."
