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Editorial, Wedding and Commercial Tokyo Photographer – Irwin Wong bio picture

Irwin Wong - Photographer

Welcome to my blog.

If you don't already know me, my name is Irwin Wong, and I'm an editorial photographer based in Tokyo, Japan.  I'm also affiliated with Japanorama.co.uk - the fastest growing source English-language source for learning photography in Tokyo - where I teach a series of lighting workshops.

This blog showcases some of my recent work, as well as photos from the workshops and classes I teach.  Hope you enjoy it, and you can always find more of my photos at my homepage here.

Tag Archives: model

A bit of fun

I’ve been asked on several occasions to provide more than just photography – sometimes people ask for a bit extra. Like this movie poster I shot for my best friend’s wedding a long time ago – ‘The Last Ninja’, a bit of a satirical homage to the old Sho Kosugi ninja films. Quite possibly still...

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Yoyogi Boxing Gym

Here’s another batch of photos shot at a recent Japanorama strobist workshop I held in Yoyogi, Tokyo.  The great thing about teaching photography in Tokyo is that you are always surprised at who will become willing subjects for your students – this time it was Japanorama student Rob Piazza who introduced this boxing gym to...

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Kinfolk

I’m a sucker. Buy me dinner and I’ll take your photos.  That’s what my good friend Chris Nixon did in order to get his shots done with his new Kinfolk bicycle. Kinfolk is best described as a bicycle atelier out in Nakameguro.  Each bike frame is built to order and hand-made by 70-year old master...

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Marissa @ abandoned train yard

Some shots from the weekend. Sorry for the late update guys, but things have been getting busier. This is Marissa – and as is fairly evident she does a great job modeling. The location was the industrial complex at Ougimachi, where there was an excellent section of unused train track for shooting. At least, we...

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These guys bend differently

Big thank you to Capoeira practitioners P-Jay and Shingo for the weekend’s workshop.  Definitely one of the more challenging workshops by far, as we had to deal with using flash to freeze motion as well as timing shutter releases to get a decent photo, not to mention auto-focus issues and our subjects moving all over...

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Tomfoolery

Sheer idiocy. This is from another workshop – I decided to break out the coloured gels for students to play with, which was fun for all.  This is Hunter – not the actual model for the day but just a stand-in to test lighting while the real model Haruka changed outfit.  He’s a funny old...

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Just a couple from the weekend

Big thanks to all who attended the session on Sunday!  As is always the case it’s the models and the students who provide the most creative energy, with me just sitting around in the background fiddling with lights.  Occasionally I do get to take the odd shot though, and here’s a couple from the workshop....

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Just one for now…

Sorry about the infrequent-ness of posts – been pretty slammed with stuff going on with shooting, sorting out a visa, etc. Busy, but good. Here’s just one shot from the session we had with Johan and Akiko on the weekend at Odaiba. More will come as soon as I can spare the time to go...

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Akiko

Some shots from the most recent weekend workshop – Akiko was simply incredible and just looked great no matter what we threw at her.  Here are the demonstration photos I shot to show the class what I was talking about; she absolutely killed it.  Check out her flickr page for more images of this great...

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Ella

Just a single shot from the location workshop I held with Alfie last weekend – I don’t get to shoot much at these events as I’m obviously teaching, although I’m hoping to turn that around. More info on this weekend’s studio workshop on the Japanorama website. I’m loving these Honl gels.  It’s night time, you...

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