Letters From Tokyo
© Kenya Sugai Birds I think enough has been written about the one year anniversary of the March 2011 earthquake,…
By Dan Abbe
©Daisuke Yokota There’s so much interest in Japanese photography on the English-speaking web, but not nearly enough connections from the…
By Dan Abbe
At the 2010 edition of the Higashikawa Photo Festival, I met a photographer named Iino. We were both getting drunk…
By Dan Abbe
© Naoyuki Hata, from “Burn” © Naoyuki Hata, from “Burn” A Japanese photographer recently said to me, “it feels like…
By Dan Abbe
Two days before the earthquake hit Japan, I visited a few galleries in Tokyo’s Shinjuku district. There are at least…
By Dan Abbe
I’m always interested in observing how Japan is represented abroad, but the last month hasn’t had anything to do with…
By Dan Abbe
©Tsuneo Yamashita The photos in this post were all taken by Tsuneo Yamashita, a photographer who lives in Tokyo but…
By Dan Abbe
Hi, I’m Dan Abbe, and this is the first in a series of monthly columns about Japanese photography for LPV.…
By Dan Abbe