This amazing photo is making the rounds at the moment – and it shows exactly how powerful a photo can be. This is reported to be a photo of an Iraqi orphan who drew a photo of a mother to be able to sleep with a mother. I would love a chance to sit down with Bahareh Bisheh, who appears [...]

I just learned that The Takoyaki Guy is calling it quits. It’s actually a bit sad. Anyone interested in going in on some flowers or something for him? The story I read on it is here.  

In April, Trey Ratcliff gave a tech talk at Google Tokyo, and it was enlightening, and not just because I learned that Trey believes in Hank Rollins’s theory of artist creation. It was interesting to hear about Trey’s post-processing line. We all have one, some line where something stops being a photograph, and starts being some sort of photoshop-generated art. [...]

So, you won’t see any flying monkeys, and you won’t even need any courage, but you’ll need to hurry up if you want to see the Robert Mapplethorpe exhibition in Seibu Ikebukuro. I say that you won’t need courage, because the photos that Mapplethorpe is famous for are largely illegal in Japan, so for 500 yen, you get to see [...]

CP+ last year was awesome, in large part because Elliot Erwitt is as good at speaking as he is at photography. The other big event last year was the debut of the D4 and D800. The Nikon booth was mobbed by the masses that weren’t willing to wait another week and see the cameras on the counters of every big chain [...]

I swung by today to ask them when they were closing shop, and the answer made me wish I hadn’t sat on this post so long. If you aren’t a huge fan of Tim Burton’s work, then Frankenweenie is probably a new thing, a new claymation 3-D faux-monochrome throwback to the horror of old. What those of us in the [...]

You might recognize this shot from the high-key shoot I did with the ever-fantastic Youko Sunshine. You might very well remember it better than the Legend of Zelda reference I slipped into the title, as one of those two things happened this century. I’ve been monkeying with alternative methods of printing my photos, and one of them is making some [...]