Kenro Izu

Kenro Izu was born in Osaka, Japan in 1949. During studying art at Nihon University in Tokyo, Izu visited New York, and decided to reside there at age of 21 for the next 50 years. Since 2021, Izu is residing at Kanazawa, Japan.

After opening of Kenro Izu Studio in New York City in 1974, Izu started traveling and photographed world’s “Scared Places” in 1979. Since then, the project became his life-long work traveling over 30 countries. From 1983 Izu started creating photographs with platinum print using 14x20 inch film till now, photographing the “Scared Places” and “Still Life”. Since that year, Izu has held numerous exhibitions at galleries and museums in New York and elsewhere. Izu’s works are included in the museum collection, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography.

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Kouichi Akagi

Akagi was born in Tokyo. He shoots documentaries and news reports for editorials. He provides portrait photography for PR magazines and commercials. His work includes camera and photography magazines, online magazines, how-to books on taking photos, commentaries on camera mechanisms, and reviews for new cameras and lenses. He also reviews photograph collections and exhibitions. He also holds workshops where he teaches photography. He has used a wide range of cameras from the 1950s Leica to the latest digital cameras. He has published books entitled “Masterpiece Lenses for Classic Cameras” (Shogakukan), “Use Silver-Halide Film Cameras!” (Heibonsha), “Throw Away Your Zoom Lens!” (Genkosha), “Akagi Camera Clinic Mark II” (Genkosha), and the latest publication “Film Camera Debauchery” (Hobby Japan).

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Aperture: F9.0
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Masaaki Aihara

Born in 1958 in Tokyo, Japan, Masaaki Aihara has been photographing subjects such as local railways in the Hokkaido and Tohoku regions, documentaries, wildlife and sports since his college days. After graduation, he worked for advertising agency Sogei, which he left in 1988 after eight years. He then set out on a solo motorcycle photographic journey through Australia, and was fascinated by the continent and its natural beauty. Since then he has been determined to camp at his photographic locations, rather than staying at hotels, in order to be better integrated with nature. He still travels every year to Australia’s outback and spends two to three months capturing photographs. He has covered more than 300,000 kilometers across the Australian continent over the years. Today, he also photographs traditional Japanese performance arts, mainly Osaka-style rakugo comic storytelling. He was named a Friend of Tasmania in 2005, and has been serving as a goodwill ambassador of this island state of Australia.

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