Faces of Fukushima II
** UPDATED May 2nd: 8 photos to gallery. Finally had time to scan and edit another roll and blog Part II of my “Faces of Fukushima” series, portraits and photos I took on a trip sponsored by Fukushima Future NGO before Xmas 2011. The people are residents of the temporary shelters in minamisoma about 25-30 [...]
Ontoshiki Biography
“Look, I’m not an intellectual – I just take pictures.” – Helmut Newton Australian photographer, Ontoshiki is a pseudonym and a literal translation of the photographer’s Chinese name to Japanese. 温(i.e.warm) 俊 (i.e.excellence) 輝 (i.e. shining brightly ; in this case, “輝” ki as in “あきら” akira) 四季 (shiki) itself in Japanese also means “four seasons.” He [...]
Faces of Fukushima I (with Fukushima Future)
These are some portraits and photos I took on a trip sponsored by Fukushima Future NGO before Xmas 2011. These are residents of the temporary shelters in minamisoma about 25-30 kms from Fukushima Daiichi. The portraits were shot with a 35mm minolta XD on Rokkor 58mm 1.2 lens with Kodak TriX 400. Visit Fukushima [...]
Photoshoot: Saki Kobayashi
The following photos were shot with a Canon 5D mark II from a photo shoot I did with friend, model and business entrepreneur Saki Kobayashi back in October 2011. The photos were used on her online shop blog. The post-processing with the greenish-hues were done by Saki herself. I thought the colors she chose turned [...]
Photoshoot – actress & model Takako Hotta
I recently did a photo shoot “a lust restrained” with model and actress Takako Hotta. Im pretty happy with the collaboration and all the elements, ideas and colors we discussed pre-shoot worked out really well in the end. Its always great when the model brings their own signature, style and ideas to the table [...]
