- Japan Exposures’ latest gallery features Nobuto Osakabe, who takes photos of crowds of Japanese people, much like Hiromi Tsuchida’s “Counting Grains of Sand.” There are a few weak images but it’s definitely worth a look.
- Tokyoite Thomas Orand’s new blog features black and white photos, and some more text compared to his color blog.
- Juan Rulfo, the author of the canonical Mexican novel Pedro Páramo, was also a pretty good photographer in his own right. Who knew?
- Tokyo Compression is a book by Michael Wolf, in which he photographs people stuffed into Tokyo trains. I want to take a look at the book before passing real judgment, but it seems like it might well veer into “Tokyo (and, by extension, Japan) is a ‘soulless’/‘miserable’ place.” Big ups to this German guy not only linking to SLJ, but for taking Der Spiegel to task for jumping on (crowding into??) the “sad Japan” train—it calls the people “modern slaves”!
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