Letters From Tokyo
Essay and edit by Dan Abbe A few months after arriving in Tokyo, and speaking almost no Japanese, I found…
By Daniel Abbe
All photos © Hiroshi Takizawa Unconscious Photography It’s been a big month for photography in Tokyo. German conceptual photographer Thomas Demand…
By Daniel Abbe
© Kenya Sugai Birds I think enough has been written about the one year anniversary of the March 2011 earthquake,…
By Daniel Abbe
©Daisuke Yokota There’s so much interest in Japanese photography on the English-speaking web, but not nearly enough connections from the…
By Daniel Abbe
At the 2010 edition of the Higashikawa Photo Festival, I met a photographer named Iino. We were both getting drunk…
By Daniel Abbe
© Naoyuki Hata, from “Burn” © Naoyuki Hata, from “Burn” A Japanese photographer recently said to me, “it feels like…
By Daniel Abbe
Two days before the earthquake hit Japan, I visited a few galleries in Tokyo’s Shinjuku district. There are at least…
By Daniel Abbe
I’m always interested in observing how Japan is represented abroad, but the last month hasn’t had anything to do with…
By Daniel Abbe
©Tsuneo Yamashita The photos in this post were all taken by Tsuneo Yamashita, a photographer who lives in Tokyo but…
By Daniel Abbe
Hi, I’m Dan Abbe, and this is the first in a series of monthly columns about Japanese photography for LPV.…
By Daniel Abbe