People | WHY DID YOU LEAVE JAPAN? Mar 10, 2018
An odyssey from brain scientist to creative mind
by Sergio Burns
Satoki Nagata, a neuroscientist-turned-photographer captures the fleeting nature of life experiences in Chicago
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People Feb 10, 2018
by Masami Ito
There's a lot more to the 89-year-old Instagrammer than her wacky selfies.
Art / Openings In Tokyo Aug 16, 2016
by Mark Jarnes
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 ...
World Oct 22, 2014
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 ...
National Jul 15, 2014
Photographer exhibits Vietnam War photos
by Toshiki Makino
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 ...
National Apr 25, 2014
Nuclear disaster eclipses East Timor, Somalia conflicts: photographer
by Toshiyuki Inaba
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 ...
National Oct 18, 2013
Photojournalist wins prize for revealing Kyrgyzstan's abduction weddings
by Toshihiro Ariyoshi
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 ...
National Sep 17, 2013
Photographer falls under Mount Fuji's magic spell
by Toshiki Makino
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 ...
National Sep 12, 2013
Photographer 'faces future' with portraits of centenarians
by Mami Maruko
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 ...
Art Aug 12, 2013
Toyokazu Nagano: Dad's pictures of the kids that others do want to see
by Mai Hasebe and Emily Balistrieri
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.
National Aug 6, 2013
Local photographer captures 42 years of Okinawa
by Toshiki Makino
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 ...
National May 10, 2013
Photographer retraces footsteps of grandfather, great-grandfather in U.S.
by Munehisa Tokunaga
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 ...