Nippon Camera has a monthly section entitled Film Today, a few pages dedicated to articles concerning analog photography. Within this section is a feature titled フィルムな人たち (Film People). There is clever thing in the Japanese title where Film is made an adjective.
I was interviewed for the February 2011 issue. This made the fourth or fifth time such an interview was done and I guess I’m getting pretty good at getting my personal photographic narrative out in Japanese. Though I do hate having to continually admit that my initial interest in Japan came from “discovering” anime in High School.
We did the interview in Cafe Peace in Shinjuku (on the ground level below Bic Camera). While I can’t handle the cigarette smoke the “it’s still 1972″ atmosphere is excellent.
I gave some suggestions for people for future interviews but the good thing about the scene here is that there isn’t really a shortage of film shooters. At the very least they’ll be able to find 10 more for this feature. . .
Congrats, you’re getting quite a bit of exposure lately. Hope it keeps up for you.
Also the Araki exhibition seems great, was the catalogue for sale or were they only copies on display?
Comment by Ari — February 27, 2011 @ 11:11 pm
Yes, really enjoying your blogs! I gather the book is only for sale in Japan…could be wrong, though.
Comment by Waltere — February 28, 2011 @ 8:24 am
it’s like you’re a 5 year kid with the pixelated pictures. Be a man already and stop hiding your face. No one’s gonna (or even wants) to stalk you. It’s just ridiculous at this point.
Comment by ad — February 28, 2011 @ 5:58 pm
Ari- The catalogue is indeed for sale, but most likely only on site at the gallery. It lacks an ISBN number and a barcode.
Walter- Yes, it is only sold in Japan.
ad- LOL
Comment by John — March 1, 2011 @ 8:39 am
funny- i know. you’re a street photographer, post all these strangers’ faces online without their permission but yet you hide yours?
Comment by ad — March 2, 2011 @ 4:51 pm
Congratulations, you found someone with whom you disagree with on the internet.
Funny how this goofy inconsistency of mine apparently troubles you this much. And for it to be both something so painfully obvious and intentional. . .
I can’t be the only one similarities between this issue and your own anonymous trolling, right? There’s a saying in Japanese that translates to “Nose snot laughing at eye snot” – - The pot calling the kettle black, if you will.
Comment by John — March 3, 2011 @ 9:55 pm
May I say congrats to you as well, throwing out “trolling” is so rare on the internet these days. It’s a real point I’m making that you seem to not want to address, and now deflect. You love to talk about photography, well let’s talk about the ethics of photography.
This is not a “goofy inconsistency”. It takes a bit of time to pixelate your pictures and this is not the first one, there’s many. It’s so f’n ridiculous and hypocritical that I felt you needed to be called out on it. Who am I to call you out, or to even care or even my name is not really relevant. I’m not posting other peoples’ attributed online comments on a blog while withholding mine. And honestly it says a lot about you if this is your response.
I made a point and if you want to avoid it and act like a b*tch, so be it I guess.
Comment by Ad — March 4, 2011 @ 8:30 am
Not sure if you are thinking of yourself as particular clever by finding this “hypocrisy”, but history is full of photographers who didn’t like being photographed and the world is full of people who don’t like having done to themselves what they do to others (just ask your friends in the military when they “go out shooting”). So here’s our John with a pixelated face on the Interwebs, hey ho, glad someone’s watching over the standards out there!
Comment by Dirk — March 4, 2011 @ 1:28 pm