japanese photography - the space in between

09 Jun 2026 12 min read

The Art of the Loss of Love pt. 3: Nobuyoshi Araki and Losing the Self

The most honest and intriguing images are the ones that he is making now, at the end of his life. If Nobuyoshi Araki has lived for 86 years as someone with a rapacious appetite for…well, everything, he is now at the moment of having his after dinner drink and waiting for the final check to arrive.

21 Apr 2015 8 min read

Emi Anrakuji: Mapping Embodiment

One of the most distinctive photographers to have emerged since 2000, Toyko-based Emi Anrakuji has built a reputation on handmade photobooks and striking collections published by Nazraeli Books. Even her gallery shows

27 Mar 2015 11 min read

Japanese Photography in 2015: the Master List

This is a great moment for Japanese photography connoisseurs and enthusiasts. For a long while now, photographic japanophilia was an interest that had to be nursed solely with foreign book purchases, the rare North American exhibition (or the less-rare European one), and abundant, if limited, use of

10 Mar 2015 4 min read

Zen Audacity in Eikoh Hosoe's Barakei: Consideration of an Image

This is it. The image that forever did me in, the one that turned me into a Japanese photography addict. To tell you what you are looking at is one thing, and flatly

10 Jul 2005 11 min read

what little girls want: the art of miwa yanagi

miwa yanagi creeps me out--in all the good kinds of ways. her images carry the capacity to go from surface to psychological in lightning-quick speed, and what lay in the subconscious afterwards folds into complex unease with a lingering, distinct aftertaste...her visual problem-solving mingled with