Tag: festivals

Kanchu Suiyoku (midwinter bathing)

Kanchu Suiyoku (midwinter bathing)

The new year here in Japan starts off with some quite masochistic festivals. The other week I went to the Kanchu Suiyoku festival, which is …

 

Beating the heat….

Beating the heat….

Tokyo gets oppressively hot in the summer. You take a step out from your air-conditioned apartment and your dripping with sweat in no time. Whilst …

 

Celebrating death

Celebrating death

A couple of weeks back I went to photograph the celebration of death at the Mitama Matsuri (soul festival) in Tokyo’s Yasukuni shrine. This Shinto …

 

The woman in the dog mask

The woman in the dog mask

When I’m on an assignment for my agency or a job for a newspaper or magazine, I’m always drawn to the unexpected. Recently I went to …