Uchujin -The Blog

There’ll be no moratorium, no “it was a year of up’s and down’s” or any other nonsense.

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Finally after months of sitting on this series as it was submitted for grant applications and major photo competitions, as 2010 draws to a close, I am particularly proud to present a photo story that I feel has moved my work to the next level:- Read more…

Ukoo “KABOOM!” Flani and Upendo “Hero of Love” Hero

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Berlin, how do I love thee? let me count the ways!
Everyone who’d been there told me I was going to love the place before I went, and oh! how right they were! not even -15 degree temperatures could cool my enthusiasm for this incredible unique city.

After almost 3 weeks of madness filming for the “Twende Berlin” documentary, sharing an apartment with 6 Kenyan hip-hop musicians, 3 Italians, an English/Kenyan and a Chilean, I’m back in Tokyo.
My body clock is still all over the place, I have hours of video footage to watch, there are several “in” jokes that are still making me chuckle and readjusting to being here feels like it’s getting harder every time.
I feel physically and emotionally drained, but like I was just part of something wonderful.

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A little video I’d forgotten about from when I borrowed the 15mm from Mr Eiichi Scart.
Mr Ellis reminded me of it on the very same route home after GnT’s last night, so here it is.
(Also wanted to post a little something as I’ve been away filming in Berlin for a few weeks and haven’t had time to edit any of that stuff yet, but it’s coming. Watch this space.)

Music by me from long,long ago

I have a dirty little secret…..
Ok I have more than one, but the one I’m admitting to today, feels in photographic circles worse than admitting you like Justin Bieber at a Carcass concert.

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A short walk from the Oya stone museum, is Oya temple, the 19th of the 33 sacred places of the Kanto district, said to have been founded in 810 A.D.

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Oya in Tochigi is an hour and a bit train ride from central Tokyo to Utsunomiya and then a short bus ride away.
Recently I took a trip out there on a rare day where my wife and I’s day off’s coincided.

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In a few weeks I will be going to Berlin to be a cameraman for Cultural Video Foundation (CVF) who are making a documentary in association with Urban Mirror about public art spaces in Berlin with Kenyan hiphop group Ukooflani (stars of the previous Maskaniflani documentary made by CVF) , Upendo Hero, an artist and cultural activist (that’s him in the picture with the heart shaped head), German musicians The Teichmann Brothers and other artists and musicians from Berlin.

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Morning man (2010) by Nanako Koyama

I’ve just realised that the rather wonderful Nanako Koyama has used a picture she took of me on her website.

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