Last week had to shoot some portraits of MTV Japan’s newest CEO. This man will be at the forefront of bringing out such shows like Pimp My Shinkansen, Tokyo’s Best Kabuki Crew, Takeshi and Butt-head, The Roppongi Hills, and so on. (Hah, The Roppongi Hills, good one Irwin). Sometimes I think I need a better...
Category Archives: Photojournalism
Aomori, Part 1
To those of you who’ve been wondering where I’ve been due to my lack of postings, I’ve been on holiday and have just gotten back into the swing of things. I went to Aomori – quite possibly the dreariest city I’ve visited in Japan, and while there was a decided lack of excitement, there were...
Fred Harris
Fred Harris – artiste extraordinaire, humanitarian and philanthropist. This is as shot, no alterations in post except a little sharpening for web. Forgive the negative space at the top – the magazine’s title is likely to go there so I decided to leave it in. Strobe freaks: check out the video I did here for...
3 lights, 1 chair
Behold veteran journalist and media personality Torigoe Shuntaro. This is a cover shot for the magazine of the Tokyo American Club, for some kind of article. I’m usually not very well apprised of the story but I always do my research on my subjects. Gotta have something to talk to your subject about, so you...
Yeehaw
You know the Internet is a weird and wonderful thing. It’s sent the world careening from its measured, deliberate pace onto a frenetic racetrack where information is a mere flick of wind, gone before you even noticed it was there. Anyone and everyone is their own part-time publisher these days, making the ‘net an incontinent...
