Uchujin-The Blog

Or, My feet have become unbearably itchy…….

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Last week a make-up artist friend, Yuko Goto, asked me to shoot for a friend and client of hers Asoh Kaho (www.kaho.jp) , a Japanese traditional musician and dancer.
The shoot took place at the Akasaka Prince Hotel, in the  rather beautiful 2 storey old building, which reeked of money and decadence ;-)
It was a lot of fun as both Kaho san and Goto san were great to work with and very professional.
Thank you ladies.
Here are the 2 shots she chose and 1 that I liked ;-)

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Center Gai, Shibuya, Tokyo.
The rarely seen and almost never photographed mating ritual of the “bleached coiffure construction worker” and the “covered face fascist”.

The ritual begins with the construction worker, seen here in his usual green coloured plumage, feigning sleep in the middle of a busy pedestrian street, the perfect tactic to attract the attentions of the increasingly prevalent “covered face” species of the Tokyo blue fascist.(A bizarre mutation of the blue fascist made possible by the acquiescence of the unusually docile native animals in this particular area) Read more…