Letzte Japan-Photo News

After Fukushima #1
On March 11, 2011 the photographer Koichiro Tezuka was in a helicopter on the way back from Aomori prefecture, North Japan, to Tokyo. While in the air a magnitude 9.0 earthquake hit the Pacific coast of Tôhoku. It was almost probably the strongest earthquake since 1.000 years. The earthquake caused surprisingly minor damage considering the [...]...

Photo: Shashin.co, new website…
Photo: Shashin.co, new website on young Japanese photography http://t....

Video: On Japanese photobooks …
Video: On Japanese photobooks (for auction at http://t.co/xRUxMpHZ) http://t....

Contemporary Japanese Photogra…
Contemporary Japanese Photography vol.10, at Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography http://t....

Rinko Kawauchi “Illuminance” – Preview
Rinko Kawauchi will publish her new book “Illuminance” in May. It will be her first book being published outside Japan. Publisher is Aperture, New York; and the photobook will be available in Germany at Kehrer Verlag as well.   “It’s not enough that [the photograph] is beautiful,” says Kawauchi. “If it doesn’t move my heart, [...]...