One of my favorite zine ‘Incandescent’. It is curated and produced in Portland, Oregon by Pine Island Press. I made some videos of Incandescent (Issue 7, 10, 12, 16, and 17). Check out my YouTube playlist or Vimeo showcase. Thank you for the permission, founder Helen Jones. I hope Incandescent continues.
Reincarnation (26 photos) : This personal photo story is an ongoing series, which started in 2010. These photos are at my parents’ house and surrounding countryside the Izu peninsula. My father said, “When I retire, I’d like to spend the rest of my life in the Izu peninsula”. In 2010, my father bought a house in the Izu peninsula. Mountain-burning on the Mt. Omuro is one of the events of the Izu peninsula. It will be carried out in February every year for refreshment of grasses. I think it to be reincarnation (A never ending cycle of life). It is the last place that my parents live. *The paper airplane that my father handed to my mother is the contract sheet of this house.
I’m taking a break from social media for a while (about three months). I need to actually study. I bought an A3+ inkjet printer during the pandemic. I got some advice about inkjet print from printing director at Yamanote Photographic (Related post: here). I’m retrying photography prints with an inkjet printer. Feel free to give me your feedback and advice via DM or email. *I always use brownie 120 film 6×7 medium format. And sometimes I use 35mm (135) film.
Inkjet fine art paper: ILFORD and SiHL
Darkroom enlarging paper: ORIENTAL
Clamshell storage box: Print File, Inc.
Print size: 8×10 inches
*I’m going to get vaccinated for the first time on September 13th (Second dose: October 4th).
My B/W photos (Left to right): From the series Tokyo 2020. / 1. International student wearing a facemask. 2-3. Social distancing. 4. Message in the windows of Tachikawa Sougo General Hospital: “Hospital at its limits. Stop the Olympics!”. 5. ‘TOKYO 2020’ Olympic banners and the ‘Olympic’ supermarket’s signboard at the top of building.
The Olympic games opened on July 23. But I haven’t been vaccinated yet. Vaccination for the coronavirus has been delayed in Japan.
Top: Utrecht
Bottom: Nanako Koyama and Ayaka Ito exhibition (Prints, Mat boards and Framed by FLAT LABO) at Book And Sons
Photography
2021.01
香取声
情け島
Nikon Salon Shinjuku
2021.04
小山奈那子, 伊藤彩香
Where You Are
BOOK AND SONS
2021.06
都築響一の眼 Vol.4
portraits 見出された工藤正市
KKAG
2021.07
ホンマタカシ
Tokyo and ‘my Daughter’
POST
2021.07
ホンマタカシ
‘Tokyo’ and my Daughter
Utrecht
2021.10
Guy Bourdin
The Absurd and The Sublime
CHANEL NEXUS HALL
◼️ COVID-19 state of emergency (in Tokyo and Kanagawa)
1. 04.07.2020 – 05.25.2020
2. 01.08.2021 – 03.21.2021
3. 04.20.2021 – 06.20.2021
4. 07.12.2021 – 09.30.2021
My photography prints + Wood frame sample at Yamanote Photographic. Yamanote Photographic is an ILFORD certified print lab in Japan. I got some advice about inkjet print from printing director.
“You keep that,” said my dad. It was a copper medal commemorating the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, which were held before I was born. He told me that the start of shinkansen rail services was timed to coincide with the Games, and that sales of the colour TV sets that replaced black and white ones went through the roof. The second Tokyo Olympics was planned to take place 56 years after the first, in 2020. But the Covid-19 pandemic broke out at the start of the year, and the Games were rescheduled for 2021. The global coronaviruscrisis remained unresolved, however, and cities in Europe and America went into lockdown. In Japan, where the law does not allow lockdowns, states of emergency were repeatedly declared in the major cities. In April 2021, Tachikawa Sougo General Hospital, a medical facility in one of Tokyo’s suburbs, posted messages in its windows warning that it was at the limit of its capacity to treat patients and calling for the Olympics to be cancelled. At present, with three months to go before the Games are due to start, the majority of Japanese citizens are still unvaccinated, while the Japanese government’s line is that the Olympics will go ahead.
This short documentary series is intended to allow us in future to look back on the once-in-a-lifetime year of the planned Tokyo Olympics.
Translated by Michael Normoyle and Yoshiko Furuhashi at M&Y Translations (Birmingham, UK)
These photographs are part of “Borderland”, one of my photo archive projects. I live in the city of Sagamihara (Kanagawa Prefecture), where the US ArmySagami General Depot is situated. In 2014, 17 of the depot’s total 214.4 hectares were returned to Japan. A local pro soccer team isplanning to relocate its home stadium to this area.There are also plans to constructan extension of the Odakyu Tama railway line anda new station underground here. What this currently unused site will look like in the future is very hard to imagine. Recording this landscape as it changes will require a long (10-year) time-frame.Since the end of the War in 1945, Kanagawa Prefecture seems to have experienced an influx of American culture, as the US Army’s presence has brought jazz, surfing, surf music, movies, hamburgers, entertainment, art and the like to Shonan coast and even thecentral area of the prefecture where I live.
Translated by Michael Normoyle and Yoshiko Furuhashi at M&Y Translations (Birmingham, UK)
