Pioneering Japanese photographer, filmmaker, and professor Eikoh Hosoe passed away on September 16, in Tokyo at the age of 91. Renowned for his striking high-contrast black-and-white images, Hosoe is ...

Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, the US instated relocation camps for all Americans of Japanese descent. Photographer Dorothea Lange was hired by the government to document the camps, but her ...

A woman with spiky, dyed blonde hair sits submerged in a bath strewn with red rose petals. She is naked, aside from a pair of swimming goggles just visible above the water line. This is one of ...

Join lifelong photographer and journalist Jefferson Graham as he shows off the most photographable places in Japan this holiday season — all through the lens of his smartphone.

Photography has evolved immeasurably since its inception in the 1800s. Images can now be snapped on smart phones and shared instantly on social media. This transition has undermined the existence of ...

Takeuchi’s meditation on dissident women is at the center of I’m So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now, which references these three historical examples, though is ...

Ishimoto Yasuhiro (b. 1921), trained by Harry Callahan at the Institute of Design (or “New Bauhaus”) in Chicago and widely acknowledged as one of the most influential Japanese photographers of his ...

Multiple communities are feeling a cultural loss after the death of photographer Yasuomi Hashimura, remembered for being a resource for immigrants to New York City and for his lasting impacts on the ...

When two U.S. Army photographers set off on a photo-centric journey across Japan, it wasn’t for a deployment or to cover a training exercise — it was a spontaneous adventure born out of friendship, ...

“The Yamamoto family values were forged in small spaces,” the Japanese photographer Masaki Yamamoto told me recently. For eighteen years, his family of seven coexisted in a one-room apartment in Kobe.

When you're in a country as beautiful as Japan, you'll want to document as much as you can. You'll want to take photos of every meal, every temple, every cherry blossom, every vending machine. The ...