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This family of cameras is bit of an enigma. I acquired one by accident. Now, I'm curious about the rest of the family.
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The Minolta X-300 is an SLR built in the eighties. Six months ago, I bought the camera from a guy who's a professional photographer who ownes a photo shop. Although I am just a beginner, I really like this camera and so I will share my experience with this beauty.
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It's going to be a beautiful weekend in San Francisco! Come enjoy the sunshine with the Lomography SF crew.
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Do you remember what happened last March 11, 2011 in Japan? Yes, we had a big earthquake and Tsunami. You must have watched the situation on TV. One year has passed since the incident. What do you think we should do as lomographers?
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On this day, 101 years ago, a master of the Japanese art of paper folding was born. Let us take time to learn about the artist who pioneered countless origami techniques for this installment of Today in History.
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Japan is one of the countries that I want to visit. However, I don’t think I’ll be able to travel to Japan anytime soon. So the next best thing I can do to discover Japan without leaving my shores is to visit Japan tourism fairs and events such as the Japan National Tourism Organization's outdoor art exhibition at Singapore’s Orchard Road.
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The thought of shooting in a cemetery park would be creepy, eerie, and crazy (?!) Well that is quite true for most cemetery parks but there is one which is neither scary nor eerie. It is the Japanese Cemetery Park (日本人墓地公園) located in Chuan Hoe Avenue. This is one of the largest in Southeast Asia with 29,359 square metres and consists of 910 tombstones.
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For a project, Japanese artist Takanori Aiba created tree houses out of bonsai. Learn more after the break.
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Shinya Arimoto is a Japanese conceptual documentary photographer whose body of works primarily involve street photography. He has an ongoing show in Tokyo, Japan. Know the details after the break.
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To interpret paintings of people, viewers often focus on the facial expressions to look for emotions, clues, and possible stories. Interestingly, a Japanese collage artist and illustrator centered his art not on the human emotions, but on his aesthetic sense alone to create a series of portraits which he calls "Broken Faces." Read more about it after the jump.
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Since graduating from the Chelsea School of Art and Design in 2004, Lieko Shiga has made four series of photographs that are unique in their inventiveness and imagery. Her work Lilly, for example, draws its influence from the early days of photography, creating ethereal and otherworldly images.
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When we speak of Japanese art, among the very first that comes to our minds are the traditional paintings unique to these Oriental artists. Let's take a look at the works of Kawanabe Kyosai, hailed as one of the virtuosos of traditional Japanese paintings.
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Nagi Noda was a whimsical and creative Japanese artist who created lively and imaginative music videos, advertisements and who set up her own fashion label with fellow artist Mark Ryden. Her colourful and quirky work was free-spirited and experiment and captured a sense of playful fun.
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Izima Kaoru was born in Kyoto in 1954 and is best recognized for his series “Landscapes with a Corpse.” These photos combine horror with beauty in portraying models and actresses acting out their ideal deaths.
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Japanese artist and designer Tokujin Yoshioka will receive a special award and have some of his works exhibited at an upcoming Maison & Objet fair in Paris. Read about the details after the break.
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Hollywood movie stars and Japanese sumo wrestlers: what connection do they have? Martin Kreloff definitely knows what these two opposite things can have in common. Take a look at his brilliant work of art after the break!
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Bizarre, no? Ingenious, yes! Japanese artist, Mariko Sakaguchi, has done a series of entertaining mise-en-scène, in a sense, photographs that convey both cultural and social elements, and can also be viewed as an 'I spy' image, with so many objects for your viewing pleasure!
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In his career as a photographer, Shomei Tomatsu has shot many powerful images, documenting post-war Japan. One of his most famous series of photographs was a selection of photos he shot of Nagasaki following the bombing. He charted not only the still present damage to the city itself but through dramatic black and white photographs the scars on the human victims of the bomb.
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Japanese artist Ray Morimura, started out as a painter but shifted to woodblock printing after a while. His artistic technique of including geometric patterns on his work makes his woodblock prints one-of-a-kind. Learn more after the break.
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At first glance, one would think that Naoto Hattori’s paintings were created digitally. When inspected up close, you can see that his work is actually created with acrylic paint. Learn more after the break.
