Polish photographer Pawel Jaszczuk has been living in Tokyo for seven years. Duirng that time, he has been documenting drunk salarymen passed out on sidewalks.
One of my very first posts on TokyoMango (in 2006!!) was a series of photographs of a drunk salaryman being escorted off of the Yamanote line by a stationmaster.
Yowa Yowa Camera Woman Diary is a blog run by a woman named Natsumi who takes portraits of herself levitating. One more photo after the jump, and here's a link to her blog.
(Thanks, Stuart!)
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A new Kickstarter project called Japan 2.0 will allow San Francisco photographer Stirling Elmendorf to go back to Japan and take awesome photos for a book and exhibit. By helping fund the project, you can win prints or signed copies of the book, with shoutouts throughout.
My photographic inspiration began 10 years ago when I moved to rural Japan, on Shikoku- the smallest of Japan’s four main islands. Somehow, Japan changed me and my view of the world forever. I felt a need to distill my feelings and share them in an efficient and translatable format. It’s time to honor that inspiration with a vision unlike anything you’ve seen before...I’m returning in February to photograph people and places that were so inspiring to me. I’ll create a powerful series of fine art photos that will fuse Japan’s natural beauty, it’s rich and colorful society and it’s textured, man-made structures- both traditional and modern- beautiful and decaying... These photos will be part of the ジャパン2.0 - (JAPAN 2.0) photo book and website. The images will also be part of a photo exhibition in my Japantown neighborhood, here in San Francisco.
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TokyoMango reader Tom took this beautiful photo of cherry blossoms and crowds at Ueno Park in the spring. This photo makes me slightly homesick, which I must admit is pretty rare.
In 2008, Chronicle published my book: Urawaza: Secret Everyday Tips and Tricks from Japan.
I am also the founder of The Tofu Project, a boutique program that helps Japanese entrepreneurs and creators think deeper, tell better stories, and go out into the world in a much bigger way. We work with companies like Mixi, Japan Airlines, and Salesforce.com.
Sometimes I try to explain Japanese culture on CNN, BBC, CBC, WSJ, ABC (so many acronyms!) or in person at places like the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan, ETech, and Ignite!
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