Homelessness ain’t just an American thing… Part of my S&R Tokyo Series He was selling The Big Issue Japan on the south side of Nakano Station, so despite his immaculate appearance I […]
The big issue
Life sucks…
…but you do not. Part of my S&R Tokyo Series (Shibuya Crossing, Tokyo, November 2015. See my other work here and here.)
I am dynamic kung-fu dancing!
Greetings from Tokyo’s skid row… Part four of my S&R Tokyo Series Just a guy, a bit too much in his cups perhaps, that I photographed in Nihonzutsumi in Tokyo. He was […]
The kitten, the junkie, the dog, and Steven
Extremes enrich an abundant life… In my chosen profession there are extremes which exist outside of me and are mine (or yours) to take or leave. The world is ugly, and the […]
Here’s to Henry
Bukowski would have been 96 today… How do I pay tribute to a man who both enriched and destroyed my life? If I had never read his work I’d be less of […]
Jasmine and Buddy
The streets don’t care if it’s the 4th of July… She was sitting on a Japantown sidewalk, on Webster Street around the corner from Nijiya Market. She looked displaced, like a woman […]
“Tokyo in the Underbrush”: ArtsWeek
Pictures and poems from Japan’s bubble years… Introduction In January, 1987 I graduated from Lehigh University with a B.A. in journalism. By the first week of March I was in Tokyo, Japan […]
Squinting at another reality
She was shuffling around Nakamise Dori, the shopping boulevard that leads to Sensō-ji in Asakusa. She touched a lot of elbows trying to speak to people who pulled away and ignored her. […]
Cold stone home
From my “Tokyo Panic Stories” series… On a warm late September day they had staked out a spot in front of the Shinjuku Station A8 exit. He ate while she seemed to […]
Nota Bene #107: Zzzzzzzzzzzzz
“I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.” Who said it?
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