A scan of the July 2014 Tokyo Camera Style monthly feature in Nippon Camera
My editor and I went to meet Issei Suda (right) at his exhibition in June at a gallery called Wadagarou over near Ginza. I had met him once before at an opening reception at PGI a few years ago and again last September at his massive retrospective Fragments of Calm at the Tokyo Metro Museum of Photography. A fantastic (and fantastically prodigious) photographer who has had some recent re-releases of his photo books, Suda Issei is finally getting some of the exposure abroad which he deserves. If you’re not familiar with the man, listen up: He’s one of the best street photographers you’ve never heard of. Of his books, I recommend Minyou Sangaand Waga Tokyo 100 in particular but his retrospective exhibition catalogue Fragments of Calm is an affordable overview of his work which I’ve talked about on this blog before.
As for the left hand page, I photographed everyone on the same sunny day in May. The bottom two pictures are people I met at Kameido Tenjin (a really great environment for shooting) during that shrine’s Wisteria festival. The top two photos were taken a little later at Nezu Shrine, during that shrine’s azalea festival. Interestingly, I ran into the couple in the frame at the bottom right again in Nezu. Small town Toyko.