Earlier this year, contemporary dancer Asaki Kuryu and I teamed up to see what her dancing looked like from an aerial point of view.
Michael Deasey is an organist and choir master, with many influential years under his belt at the center of Anglican high church music in Sydney, Australia.
Last year a state of the art new bilingual veterinary clinic opened in the heart of Tokyo.
In addition to stills work, I am available for both ground and aerial cinematography. Based in Japan, ready to travel worldwide.
Stasia Matsumoto is a kimono educator and photographer, running her own business in Tokyo.
To mark their 150th anniversary, Goldman Sachs sent a video team around the world to capture footage of their global offices.
It’s boiling hot here in Tokyo right now, with a humidity that will keep you dripping wet every moment you stay outdoors.
A few months ago I did a short test shoot with dancer Mamiko Puamana Lee.
This time last year I was on a scouting mission in Fukushima.
This summer I began a small documentary project chronicling the restoration of a beautiful old property in Nagano.
Even today, one of my favourite images that I’ve ever produced is of the ruins of a poison gas manufacturing facility on the island of Okunoshima.
As a companion piece to my 2016 solo exhibition, I enlisted colleague Irwin Wong to help me make a video.
Last year I had the pleasure of providing aerial footage for a documentary about bullet trains in Japan, debuting on the Discovery channel.
In 2018 I produced a major documentary work about an incredibly unique island in Japan.
Last year I had the exciting chance to fly within the Fukushima exclusion zone, providing aerials for National Geographic’s Explorer production.
For the past year or so, I’ve had a new helper in the studio…
Professional dancer Asaki Kuryu and I are in talks with a local Tokyo band to potentially collaborate on a music video, showing off one of their tunes set to her very elegant, freeform modern choreography.
Earlier this year I had the pleasure of working with a very international team who were bringing the latest version of their global art installation to the small island of Iojima in Kyushu, Japan.
Earlier this year I was back in Sydney to exhibit my latest work on Aogashima at Artsite Galleries. This was during the Sydney Head On Photo Festival, so I took the opportunity to visit several other photo exhibitions while I was in town.
Tokyo based photographer Irwin Wong has spent a lot of time chronicling traditional Japanese artisans.
Earlier this summer, I attended an old friend’s wedding out in Chiba and brought along one of my drones.
Last May, I debuted my latest project in Sydney at Artsite Galleries Camperdown. I’m happy to announce that I will also be showing the work next month in Shinjuku at Place M Galleries, from August 6th-12th.
Sometimes I conduct test or maintenance flights in the eastern suburbs of Tokyo. The safest place to do this is usually above a body of water, so I recently headed for Kyuunakagawa.
Recently I helped out Daimler with some aerials for one of their promotional videos.
In between my fine art projects I have recently been doing a lot of drone flying.
When I first arrived in Japan about 10 years ago, I lived in the beautiful town of Nagahama, so I have very fond, nostalgic memories of this place.
Following the bloom of the sakura, I stopped by the beautiful small town of Torahime in Shiga, Japan.
The Itoya Papermerchant in Ginza is a store with a long history.
Last week, friend and colleague Irwin Wong and his wife Asuka welcomed their beautiful baby girl Alicia Kanae Wong into the world.
This past weekend, the Yokota air base opened their gates and let the general public in.
Today I braved the sweaty crowds and headed out to Makuhari for the annual Tokyo Game Show.
Last week Yuna and I took a trip to see Mt Fuji, but it was uncooperatively hiding behind cloud, so we were forced to find a few alternative activities.
Earlier this year I received the exciting news that one of my images from the recent series The Taisho Photographer’s House has been chosen as a finalist in the 2016 William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize.
Last weekend Harajuku was host to a huge two day dance contest and exhibition.
I am pleased to announced that I will (briefly) be back in Sydney next month to open a collaborative exhibition featuring work from myself, my father and my mother.
One of Japan’s most beloved modern cultural exports is the work of animation house Studio Ghibli.
I am sitting at Haneda airport right now about to board a plane to Sydney, thinking about what has brought me to this point.
Part 2: In June of last year I was given the
opportunity by Hasselblad and the Swedish Embassy in Tokyo to travel to Sweden
I recently had the pleasure of trying out Hasselblad’s new CMOS camera, the H5D50c.
This is the first ever medium format camera with a CMOS sensor, which means it’s the first medium format DSLR to have decent high ISO performance (along with several other improvements).
Similar to last year, I have just produced a small edition of calendars featuring images shot throughout 2015.
In June of last year I was given the opportunity by Hasselblad and the Swedish Embassy in Tokyo to travel to Sweden. One of my stops was the atmospheric old University town of Uppsala.
Every time I’ve been in Shikoku, the mountains and the clouds put on the most fantastic, moody displays.
Although my traveling companion Chad had a marauder’s map full of bizarre and interesting places to visit, we somehow unwittingly stumbled into this one.
My traveling companion Chad has a real knack for finding the most bizarre hidden gems in Japan.
Yuna and I just got back from a lovely weekend in Shizuoka.
The weekend before Christmas, Yuna and I escaped the cold Tokyo winter with a quick jaunt over to Guam.
2014 has been an exciting year for me photographically, and to cap it off I’ve decided to produce a 2015 calendar featuring images from a variety of the places I found myself shooting this year.