Starting from October 23rd until October 31st a set of my monochrome photographs of Rewal, a small coastal town in the north-west Poland, will be displayed at an exhibition called “Old Rewal – Alt Rewahl”. The exhibition will focus on Rewal’s history, concluded in archival and modern pictures, enriched with facts and anecdotes about the place and the people who lived in this almost two…
Travel and Leisure magazine recently published my picture of Nagoya Castle’s keep in an article about most visited castles in the world. According to Chris Glenn, the Nagoya Castle for over 350 years, was the biggest, the best designed, the most gorgeous and well preserved of all the castles in Japan, it had been…
A picture of mine has been published in the spring edition of “Jocks and Nerds” – a quarterly men’s style magazine with a focus on history and culture, music, sport, photography and books. I took the picture of a kimono enthusiast riding an Estrella motorcycle at the “Kimono de Jack” event in Ise, Japan. You can…
A year ago, back in spring 2014, I was contacted by the author and journalist Manami Okazaki to shoot a series of kimono pictures for her upcoming book “Kimono Now”. Since I knew of her previous book about classic Japanese tattoos, I was very excited to take the assignment. Together we have visited a number of…
* Strangely enough, I was commissioned to write another shopping article – I’m not really much of a shopper… This time it was for a winter edition of UO travel magazine from Hong Kong. As I dislike going to big shopping malls I decided to focus on small artisan shops instead. Thankfully we have plenty of these…
Last year I got to shoot a Sengoku (Warring States) period costume show at Nagoya Castle. The Omotenashi Busho-Tai, known as Nagoya Samurai Performers in English, are a theatrical troupe which gained popularity similar to a pop band. * * The performers portray the three great unifiers of Japan: Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Tokugawa Ieyasu; their commanders: Maeda Toshiie, Kato…
New Year’s Day in Japan is considered to be the most important holiday of the year, in the traditional belief that years should be viewed separately and each new year provides a fresh start. For the last few years, on the New Year’s Day morning, I have been visiting and observing festivities at a local neighborhood shinto shrine, Suwa…
