Week 13

Just a recommendation this week. I met a photographer named Onaka Koji over the weekend. He actually came to check out the final night of 29 at Gallery Gamuso in Asagaya. He lives up the train line from me here in Tokyo. His work is really good and he runs a small gallery out of a very old apartment also in Asagaya. He's made a name of a name for himself over the last ten years in Japan and is definitely worth checking out.

Here are some 29 images this week somewhat reminiscent, if not inspired by Onaka-San...





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Week 12

Ken Domon's book Chikuho no Kodomotachi (Children of Coalminers in English)came to mind last week after shooting this kid two Fridays ago.

This book has some really amazing images of kids playing in the streets in Chikuho, Fukuoka in the coal miner area where dangerous gases and poor living conditions were the norm.

The roll I just picked up for this week had way more shots of this kid than I remember taking. Don't really compare to the images of Ken Domon, but it was midnight and this kid was running in the streets! So here are a few more.






I liked our toaster and the arcade games too...




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Week 11

I found this great book the other day by Martin Parr. It's called Small World and has great shots of tourists doing touristy things in touristy countries.

For example, he has a shot of three or four people holding up the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Japanese mega tour groups posing by the Parthenon and flamboyant shirt wearing fat guys stuffing their faces in Paris. Funny stuff.

Last week I enjoyed a visit to the Kudan Kaikan in Kudanshita with my friends at Outdoor Japan (www.outdoorjapan.com).It's one of the largest roof top beer gardens I've ever seen. In the background you can see the Budokan stadium. When I finished that night, back in Kichijoji I ran into this kid without a shirt on around midnight. I think I used up a whole roll of film on him. He was hamming it up for the camera, but I got a few good ones despite my condition. Maybe I'll post more as when I get the other roll which had about 10 more shots of him on it. His dad was there.









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www.tylerensrude.com