Uchujin -The Blog

Weird paste-up sticker seen in Kabukicho.
Just that.

Summer that is.

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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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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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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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I recently shot both a catalogue and a look book for the Tokyo based fashion label ‘Brilliant World‘.
Run by two great guys the shoots were both a lot of fun, plus they gave me some of their excellent T-shirts for free, always a bonus!
I’m really pleased with how both shoots turned out, so I’ll show a little sneak peak of the collection (that won’t be released for a few months yet) here but you can always head over to their website anyway as they have an interesting blog going on too. Read more…

***UPDATE*** There have been some unpleasant insinuations and comments about my morals and political views concerning the content of this post.
Please be sure to read my replies to the commenters.

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Disclaimer – It had been a long day, I was very tired and spaced out from travelling. The following blog post contains photos, many of them macro, of butterflies in full saturated colours. This should not be taken as an indication that I have gone soft in my old age. Normal angry young (ok, quite young) man service will be resumed shortly.That said……

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245km north of Perth in the Nambung national park near the town of Cervantes in Western Australia is one of Australia’s most unique landscapes.
The Pinnacles.

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What do you do when the girlfriend of someone you haven’t seen for 24 years breaks into her husband-to-be’s email and begs you to fly to another hemisphere to attend their wedding?
You get yourself on a plane of course.

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