Uchujin -The Blog

A cold Saturday in Tokyo, my day off and nothing constructive to do.
Really wanting to practice my lighting skills due to some upcoming assignments the only model available would have to do.

There seems to something inherently narcissistic about the self portrait, a stable of artists since the dawn of time. The challenge, to represent oneself truthfully, warts and all, or as is so often the case, to ‘big up your badself’.

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If you go down to the woods today you’re in for a big surprise.

Well, ok it’s hardly ‘the woods’, but lets say for instance you were walking down Meiji dori in Harajuku and you walked past the Uniqlo ‘UT’ store, you may if you glanced at the store window see someone you recognised.

If you did recognise that person, you would be as surprised as I was when a friend called my wife excitedly to say she had seen me gracing the store front in not just 1 but 2 large pictures as part of uniqlos ‘The 11 and the only’ top stylists T-shirt campaign.
As happy as I am to be gazing out at the freaks and wannabes strolling down Harajukus’ streets, the pictures sparked a disgruntled Uchujin to storm into my agency yesterday with all guns blazing.
You see I was told that the pictures from that shoot were going to be only gracing Uniqlos website and was payed accordingly (much less than you would expect).
Had I known that the pictures were destined for prime position on the store front I would never have agreed to the shoot at that money. Read more…

Today I received an email from Getty Images via my Flickr account asking if I would like to include some selected images from my Flickr stream in the new Getty Flickr collection.

After some thought on the matter I have decided it would be crazy to say no, although I’m sure some of my photographer friends will come up with convincing arguments why not.

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(most of The Beats-Doing what they do best-Absent without leave The Foamy Green And me cos I was taking the picture)

The observant among you will have noticed that the slideshow on the main “Tokyo Beats” page has been updated with 35 new pictures.
A little something we are trying out.
Each member will select 5 pictures from the flickr stream of the other 6 and 5 of their own.
That way you get to see what we like about each others work. Plus a little selection of images we like of our own.

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The Tokyo Beats:-
A loose collective of reprobates, sometime photographers and alcohol abusers of various degrees. Talentless f&%ks with big mouths and bigger egos.

An Englishman, An Australian, A Japanese guy and 4 Americans?? Read more…