
Les Echos, French financial newspaper, is publishing today an article about Japanese women and their difficulties to find or keep a job after having a baby.
The author is Michel De Grandi, Les Echos’s correspondent in Japan.
The picture editors choose a picture of mine for this article, the Shinjuku red-dressed girl, who embodies youth and dynamism.

… so happy new year!
Algiers, Algeria, December 2009
Koyasan, Japan, January 2010

I’ll be in France from December 14 until January 7, with a short stay in Algeria between December 19 and 22.
I’m still reachable at this number +81 80 41 54 19 79.

Books magazine published a picture of mine about Murakami’s last novel, 1Q84, in a special issue about best-sellers.
The first printing of 1Q84 was sold out within the first day of release in Japan and more than one million copies sold after two weeks.

Télérama is a weekly french magazine focused on cultural topics (circulation is about 700 000).
I’ve been a reader for a long time when I lived in Paris and in my opinion it’s one of the best magazines in France. And actually pictures, often taken by Lea Crespi, Patrick Swirc or Grégoire Alexandre, are still of [...]

This year is the second edition of PhotoPhnomPenh festival in Cambodia, directed by Christian Caujolle (ex-director of Vu agency).
My pictures of the young Afghan migrants in Paris and the elections campaign in Japan will be displayed until the 6th of December in a slideshow at the Bodega. This event is organized by my Melon Rouge [...]

My pictures of the general elections in Japan will be displayed on November 26 (Thursday) at Waseda University, included in a slideshow of the Photojournalism festival organized by Days Japan magazine.
The slideshow will be held from 6.30pm till 8.30pm and it would be better to book your seat in advance here (the entrance is free).
The [...]

I have been chosen as one of the featured photographers of Photoshelter this month.
Photoshelter is a great tool to display and store my pictures online.

Yesterday I went to the top of Mori tower at Roppongi Hills. It’s still amazing to view Tokyo from above and I can’t resist to go up each time I have a chance.
The atmosphere in the afternoon was not that clear, but I was in the neighborhood so I decided to go. I arrived around [...]

Presseurop.eu publishes a picture of my work about young afghan people in Paris, coming alone from Afghanistan and trying to reach England or the northern Europe countries. My picture comes with an extract of the article by Caroline Brothers for International Herald Tribune.
Presseurop is an online newspapers in 10 languages, created in May 2008 as [...]

In yesterday’s edition, French daily newspaper “Le Figaro” published a picture of my current work about the general elections in Japan, to be held on August 30th.
The official campaign started on August 18th and the pictures shows three pre-campaign posters of Yukio Hatoyama, the current president of the Democratic Party of Japan (民主党, Minshutō) and [...]

Yesterday in Asia was the longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century. In Tokyo, the eclipse was partial only, the sky was cloudy, but the sun finally appeared in Shibuya for a very short time.
More pictures in my archive page (via photoshelter).

After more than one month looking for a temporary appartement/phone/bank/permanent apartement/furniture/internet, etc…, I think I can start working properly now.
So here we are, I’m in Tokyo, ready for long term photographic projects in Japan. I hope this next months/years will help me to understand a small part of a complex world.
I really would like this [...]