Naoki is a photographer born in 1950 in Nara prefecture. He studied in the US, originally aspired to become a painter, later shifting to photography because of his affinity for working with people. After flourishing as a photographer in the fashion mecca of Milan and London, ...

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For over fifty years now, Swedish camera manufacturer Hasselblad has been devoted to a very simple task: to produce the finest camera equipment known to man. And for over fifty years, we have succeeded in doing just that, in making the tools that will unable us to live up to...

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The National Superior School of Photography (ENSP), founded in 1982 in Arles, is a higher education establishment for fine art photography. Under the general supervision of the French Ministry of Culture, the School’s principal mission is to give theoretical knowledge and in-depth techn...

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Christian Polak is a French businessman and historian of Franco-Japanese relations. Based in Japan, he has established a unique photographic collection of both historical and graphic importance. A part of these treasures was shown in the exhibition “Ishin: the dawn of sc...

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After graduation from l’Ecole de la Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture Parisienne in 1984, Kate Barry (daughter of Jane Birkin and music composer John Barry) made her debut as designer. At the age of 28, she began her career as photographer starting to shoot for magazines such as Vog...

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Born in 1963, Shiro Takatani graduated from the department of Environmental Design, Faculty of Fine Arts, Kyoto City University of Arts. He joined Dumb Type as a founding member in 1984 and since then has been involved in the production of Dumb Type performances and...

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Nicolas Bouvier (1929-1998), was a 20th Century Swiss traveler and writer, a poet, a photographer, an iconographer, a teacher, and a radio and television journalist. Educated at the University of Geneva, where he received a master’s degrees in history, literature and law, he roamed...

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The Onishi family has been a part of the history of Kyoto and Cha-do, the way of tea, for the past 400 hundred years. 
Onishi Seiwemon XVI is the current master of the Onishi lineage of iron artisans, counted among the Senke Jisshoku ten craft households allied with the Se...

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From the 247th to 341st Day, Tohoku. 
This is the title of the series that Tadashi Ono took between the 247th and 341st day after March 11th 2011, the terrible day in which a huge earthquake and a tsunami devastated part of the Japanese coastline, particularly Tohoku, in the ...

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Malick Sidibé (1936) is a photographer From Mali ( Africa), famous for his black and white pictures of popular culture in the 1960s in Bamako. After Design and Jewelry studies, he studied photography in apprenticeship to Gerard Guillat-Guignard. In 1958, he opened his own studio, S...

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