It ain’t over till the ‘Flower of the dead’ blooms

2011.09.29

Summer that is.

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Charlie “Two Cute Dogs” Kirk – A Documentary

2011.09.21

Charlie Kirk a.k.a. “Two Cute Dogs” is a 37 year old oxbridge educated Englishman who has been living in Japan for the last 9 years. He has been taking photographs for about 2 years and has been reasonably happy with some of his pictures for about the last year. He recently quit his job as an obscenely well paid lawyer to take a shortish sabbatical in order to scare more people with his flash.

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Anti Nuclear Protest Tokyo – 19th September 2011

2011.09.20

Kenzaburo Oe (2nd from left) and Yamamoto Taro(right) lead the 19th September Anti-Nuclear march as it leaves Meiji park in Tokyo

The scenes that started in Meiji park around midday yesterday and continued through the day as a 50,000 people strong crowd, led by Kenzaburo Oe (winner of the Nobel prize for literature in 1994) marched through the streets of Tokyo to protest Nuclear power are quite simply the most impressive thing I have ever seen in Japan.
The exact numbers in the crowd are in dispute (Police-29,000 , NHK 60,000) but my estimate would be around 50,000. Consisting of a mainly older demographic that is sure to worry the politicians, there was none of the Police violence of last weekend’s much smaller but younger demonstration in Shinjuku and the overall police presence was much smaller.

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“Two Cute Dogs” – Charlie Kirk – A documentary – The Trailer

2011.09.16

A short trailer for my soon to be released documentary on Charlie Kirk a.k.a. `Two Cute Dogs`, a Tokyo based street photographer.

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