If you’re going to be around Portland, Maine, in November or December, be sure to drop in to Ed Pollack’s gallery “A FINE THING” to see some of my photos, along with some of his other friends in his “Friends…
If you’re going to be around Portland, Maine, in November or December, be sure to drop in to Ed Pollack’s gallery “A FINE THING” to see some of my photos, along with some of his other friends in his “Friends…
Not far from Minowa station on the Hibiya line is a nondescript temple called 浄閑寺—Jokanji. From the street, it looks like many other Tokyo temples, but behind the new main building is an old cemetery that has one particular point…
This started out as an email from a friend who was looking for feedback on his photography, but I decided to take a bit of time and fill it out a bit: Pardon the delay in replying. First, I guess…
Saturday night I’ll be in Kabukicho at an intimate pole dance party, shooting a bit, hanging out all night, having some drinks. You should come by. My dear friend Yuri is organizing the event and it should be a really…
Why am I so excited about a camera that looks like it’s from the early part of the last century? While camera companies are doing their best to scrape their film camera divisions from their shoes, Fujifilm and more interestingly…
I was really in a funk last night. After I posted yesterday, I went down to Shibuya with Ben to our weekly photo geek beer meeting, had a few beers, but left when it got too crowded and noisy. I…
In my neighborhood is an unlikely little café, far nicer than you’d expect to find in a little shitamachi neighborhood like mine on the north end of Ueno park. It’s a stylish little place, in the shell of an old…
Ben was kind enough enough to record my speech last night at Martine’s Photo Biz Nite event: < Jim O’Connell, speaking at Photo Biz Nite Tokyo from Jim O’Connell on Vimeo.