Oya-Part 3-The Abandoned Building Cliche

2010.11.13

Oya-Part 3-The Abandoned Building Cliche Photo 1

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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Oya-Part 2-Heiwa Kannon and the 1200 year old 1000 armed Chenrezig

2010.11.13

Heiwa Kannon, Oya,Tochigi,Japan

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-Part 1-Oya stone museum

2010.11.12

Oya stone museum

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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Twende Berlin – Documentary Project

2010.11.02

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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Nanako Koyama

2010.11.01
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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