
(A late notice for those who are not following me on Facebook or Twitter.) The Fukushima crisis has not ended yet. Everyday, there are updates about the nuclear accident in the news. The news are less worrying than before but more detailed information are progressively coming up: tainted beef meat, hot spots in the Kanto [...]

A few pictures of the Lodz festival exhibition catalog, featuring my work about contemporary houses in Tokyo, 東京の家 (Tokyo no ie). This work is still in progress and as you may notice, new pictures were shown in this book. For those interested in Tokyo architecture, I highly recommend Tokyo metabolizing exhibition currently displayed in Tokyo, [...]

My assignment for La Vie, French weekly magazine, about Fukushima nuclear refugees. It was published on 16 pages in two issues. The first issue deals with the evacuation area, around the 20km perimeter and in the newly evacuated villages (Iitate, Kawamata, Minami Soma, Katsurao and Namie). The second part is about nuclear refugees, in Tokyo [...]

Protests are really not common in Japan, except on three occasions : – Workers on May 1st – Residents against US military bases in Japan/Okinawa – Right-wing nationalists (almost every week) Now we can probably add anti-nuclear power plants protests to the list. Since the quake and Fukushima accident, there has been almost a demonstration [...]

It has been a while since my last post. I was quite busy at the end of February and beginining of March, working on assignments for magazines and on an editorial piece about the architecture of the new Embassy of France in Tokyo, which should be published in July. On March 11 at 2:46 pm, [...]

A 100Yen shop picture of mine published in Bloomberg Businessweek this week. More pictures of 100 Yens shop.

After having spent much money for Christmas, announcers are broke. For the first issue of the year, editors have to add extra contents for their magazine not to look too skinny. Good for me, as I had this assignment for “L’Express”, a French weekly news magazine. They published a special issue about creativity in Japan, [...]

Two pictures of mine in this month’s issue of Ulysse magazine (France), about Japanese food. One of the picture was taken at Rengejo-in temple in Koyasan and is part of my work “Koyasan, birthplace of Japanese buddhism” (2010). The other one is a portrait of Shuzo Kishida, 35, the youngest Michelin-three-starred-chef in the world. I [...]