Japan Through My Eyes

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I just uploaded the first 9 films shot in Japan. I have a long way to go but it’s a start at least … Read on »

Japan in Monochrome

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This is the start of what I intend to be an extensive photo essay on Japan—shot entirely on film—and hopefully the world if I decide that the value of a 35mm SLR out weighs the inconvenience and physical cost of luging it around. This is an old issue for me that comes up every time I hit the road.

Here is the first film I’ve scanned since receiving the film scanner three weeks ago. The film was shot December 2009, … Read on »

New Toy

I was pretty happy yesterday when my film scanner arrived. It’s no substitute for the darkroom—as a friend once said ‘You lose all the beautiful filminess!’—but at least I’ll finally be able to digitise the film I’ve shot in the last year. That will take a while because scanning takes time and I have about 15 rolls yet to process. I’ll start publishing in the next week. Here’s a few shots from the test run.

Sapporo

Sapporo

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Hand Painted Signage in Asia

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I just spent the weekend trying to (finally) bring this new version of my website up-to-date, reposting the old journals and attempting to put some sort of logical order to things. And I figured while I’m at it I should finish sorting out my photographs from the first stage and archive them properly. It was the first time I’ve looked through the images of the journey in their entirety. Frankly, I would sooner have spent the day climbing one of … Read on »

First blog, I think

This is my first blog, I think. I admit that I wasn’t really sure what a blog is or is supposed to be, so I looked it up in Wikipedia. I learnt, for instance, that blog is contracted from web log. Blog, unlike frog or clog, slipped into my vocabulary without fully knowing its definition. That’s more or less my experience with the digital revolution. I can’t remember seeing it coming and I’m only now realizing that I’ve been ambushed. … Read on »

Japan

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10 January 2008—12 February 2008

‘You have only to see what you see and feel what you feel.’ —Mineko Iwasaki

I had a fundamental decision to make. One that had been rolling around in my head since day one, and I knew I would have to face up to it in the next year: east or west?

The problem was I wanted to go east. I wanted to go to South America and west meant … Read on »

 
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