picture Archive

  • Contact sheets | a sample

    Contact sheets | a sample

    August 9, 2010
    I thought I’d share three contact sheets. A “succesful” one, a “nope, I’ve not quite got it yet” one,  and...
  • My photo archive system: an introduction

    My photo archive system: an introduction

    August 8, 2010
    Hey. Once in a while I should write about some tech stuff… and what other topic than the one that...
  • flying home | counting blessings

    flying home | counting blessings

    July 10, 2010
    A long overnight flight home is always a good time for introspection…. (especially in a window seat at the emergency...
  • My streets | then there was rain

    My streets | then there was rain

    July 2, 2010
    This time round has been extraordinarily difficult in Tokyo. It has been my longest trip to date (a full month),...
  • 893 Magazine | Playing wide

    893 Magazine | Playing wide

    May 13, 2010
    I wonder how “wide” a photographer should be playing these days. It seems obvious to me that the time has...
  • The meeting | Koi

    The meeting | Koi

    May 11, 2010
    Ever since I started this project over a year ago, there has been one particular recurring moment which I, to...
  • The covert training camp

    The covert training camp

    April 14, 2010
    I arrive early. I’ve hitched a ride with two young recruits who will be trained here. I have no idea...
  • The bath house | Narita

    The bath house | Narita

    March 24, 2010
    I’m exhausted, waiting at the entrance of the tiny bath house at the golf course near Narita, hoping to get...
  • 893 book dummy | Thoughts

    893 book dummy | Thoughts

    February 24, 2010
    So my book dummy arrived last week. yay :-) It’s kind of funny to notice the different “feels” a particular...
  • Ways of keeping up with me

    Ways of keeping up with me

    January 31, 2010
    If you want to have me send you a mega cool email update from time to time with lots of...
  • The commemoration | Socho

    The commemoration | Socho

    January 13, 2010
    Bright day. Early morning. A commemoration is to be held for a deceased family member. The family is in charge...
  • Taka-san | The fixer

    Taka-san | The fixer

    November 20, 2009
    Meet Taka-san. He is a great friend and my fixer for the Yakuza project entitled “Odo“. He runs a tiny...
  • BURN on NYTimes LENS blog

    BURN on NYTimes LENS blog

    November 12, 2009
    …and a huge shout out to James Estrin… thanks!
  • Antoine D’Agata

    Antoine D’Agata

    November 2, 2009
    more “dislocate” images creep in to me every once in a while…
  • Dislocate…

    Dislocate…

    October 27, 2009
    When i was in Mexico in the fall of 2008, during the Day of the Dead festivities in Oaxaca, i...
  • BURN Magazine wins Lucie Award

    BURN Magazine wins Lucie Award

    October 20, 2009
    So proud and humbled by what we achieved in little over 10 months… Check out the post on BURN Magazine…
  • The beach

    The beach

    October 3, 2009
    The covert training camp lies somewhere along the shores of southern Japan. I have no idea where i am, after...
  • Coffee and tattoos

    Coffee and tattoos

    September 5, 2009
    Tanamoto Kaicho lies motionless, silently enduring the pain. Sensei Horiyoshi applies the tattoo manually, according to ancient…
  • Heavens: the next project

    Heavens: the next project

    August 2, 2009
    First image from my next long-term project. The Why and the How are a secret for now, but I promise...
  • Eye of the beholder

    Eye of the beholder

    June 26, 2009
    I’ve worked all day to prepare everything. Made galleries on my portable; made prints at Yodobashi Camera. Wrapped everything up...
  • B+W magazine

    B+W magazine

    June 21, 2009
    B+W magazine, special issue #68, 2009, features work from my Mexico project “I see a Ghost”
  • As light shines on thy thigh

    As light shines on thy thigh

    April 16, 2009
    Kabukicho, Shinjuku, Tokyo – Going deeper underground… Walking the streets with Soichiro and his family. Kabukicho is the red light,...
  • “Sugar” part of Milan Photofestival

    “Sugar” part of Milan Photofestival

    March 7, 2009
    Thanks to my dear friend Angelo Guarracino and Giovanna Lalatta from SPAZIOFARINI6 gallery in Milan, 6 large high quality prints...
  • BURN Magazine

    BURN Magazine

    January 26, 2009
    David Alan Harvey and I started Burn Magazine in December 2008, just before Christmas. We both committed to BURN in...
  • 893 – the Yakuza in Tokyo

    893 – the Yakuza in Tokyo

    January 25, 2009
    Meet Soichiro. He has agreed to us getting to know each other. Through the barriers of different languages and cultures,...
  • I see a ghost

    I see a ghost

    January 14, 2009
    A story set in Oaxaca, Mexico, during the Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos), about the ghosts that...
  • “Sugar” on BURN Magazine

    “Sugar” on BURN Magazine

    December 22, 2008
    hey folks… proud to tell you that “sugar” is being featured over at burn magazine, an evolving journal for emerging...
  • Thinking at the beach

    Thinking at the beach

    November 30, 2008
    went to the beach for a walk and a think. it was cold and lonely. but i thought a lot...
  • PhotoShelter

    PhotoShelter

    November 18, 2008
    i’ve joined PhotoShelter to archive my images, centralize client contacts, and to make distribution easier… they offer a great package...
  • “Sugar” at Slideluck Potshow DC III

    “Sugar” at Slideluck Potshow DC III

    November 15, 2008
    hello. The story “sugar” will be featured on slideluck potshow DC III this weekend (saturday nov 15th, 7.00pm EST). They teamed...
  • Sugar

    Sugar

    November 15, 2008
    “Sugar” is a story about Birgit, a six year old sweet kiddo. She’s been diagnosed with diabetes about a year...
  • Braakland

    Braakland

    July 15, 2008
    Braakland ZheBilding… ten young actors in a play about their fears their hopes their secrets their shames their inability to...