Female Japanese photographer

[raid]

"I ate a Maki roll yesterday for dinner 🙂"

And we really don't need silly puerile comments making fun of people's names.

This was not a joke in any way at all. I ate at a Japanese restaurant and I ordered such a roll. If you read any of my postings anywhere you will see that I do not make fun of people.

 

[fgianni]

To be fair her portfolio is quite impressive, and while I perfectly understand why it is unlikely to appeal the average rangefinder user, her technique is top class for what she does.

 

[Andrew Sowerby]

I must say that I fall into the "bright colours are fun" camp. I particularly enjoyed the "People" portfolio.

 

[grantray]

To be fair her portfolio is quite impressive, and while I perfectly understand why it is unlikely to appeal the average rangefinder user, her technique is top class for what she does.

Agreed. Marge Casey doesn't just rep anybody off the street for a reason. And shooting in such a stylized manner is very difficult. Very, very difficult.

-grant

 

[clarence]

I spent some time in a studio with two acquaintances who agreed to be my models. It's a completely different experience from street rangefinder photography.

On the street, with a rangefinder there is no need for rapport with the subject. You can be a silent hunter who sees but is not seen.

In the studio, however, if there is no connection between subject and photographer, it can be very difficult to produce proper photos. The subject is in an environment so detached from any sense of the 'normal' and 'ordinary', that everything depends on that crucial relationship.

I came back with 3 rolls of rather disappointing exposures.

Clarence

 

[Carrotblog]

[I"]Coming out swinging are we?
Speaking of style I checked out the photos on your blog. Very Nice.

Hope to see more." [/I]

Must be the rampant rabbit in me.

Cheers Kmack - I'm just emerging from the underground 😉

I like your work too, but why no furry animals in the black and white compositions? 🙂


Miffy

xoxoxo

I have a bog. I am a blog.

http://carrotblog.livejournal.com

 

[amateriat]

I do remember (somewhat vaguely) this photographer's work in American Photo (and, I think, at least one other magazine whose name I can't recall at the moment). It comes off to me as a bit of visual cotton candy: big and bright and sort-of tasty, but then it's gone - not even an afftertaste. She's obviously got technical chops to burn, and she clearly deserves the commercial success she's had thus far. Some of the stuff is quite clever from a commercial standpoint...the sort of thing I might have come across a decade or so ago while leafing through a copy of Interview or Paper. I've seen far worse, and I've seen far better (the late Helmut Newton, whose work once scared the willies out of me, suddenly comes to mind – commercial and edgy and witty all at once, and boy, do those images linger in the mind, love 'em or hate 'em). Kawakita's work certainly fits in the middle somewhere.


- Barrett

 

[Simon Larbalestier]

34+ comments demonstates her work has an impact whether you like it or not. Actually i do.
It's accomplished and applicable to the market she chooses to work in and i respect it for that alone. Not everyone's cup of tea for sure and perhaps not RF orientated but so what. I agree with Jon in that diversity is a good thing.

 

[dostacos]

two thumbs up for technical merit, but I won't be hanging her stuff on my walls 😉

 

[Dougg]

Not my cup of tea, certainly, but it definitely has impact. The one thing I noticed common to all but a couple of the photos was a sense of isolation, detachment... alienation. When there were multiple models they were not interacting with either the photographer or each other. I didn't like that lack of warmth and connection.

 

[jlw]

34+ comments demonstates her work has an impact whether you like it or not.

It may just demonstrate that a lot of us are bored and spending too much time sitting in front of our computers!

 

[RML]

Well, whether your cuppa or not, it got people thinking, or at least woke them up a bit from their slumber. 🙂

 

[StuartR]

I think it is good ad/fashion and editorial work. It is well executed, thought-out and culturally apropos. But like many, it does not move me particularly...

 

[bobomoon]

Speaking of style I checked out the photos on your blog. Very Nice.

Hope to see more.

I'm diggin' the carrotblog as well.

 

[ClaremontPhoto]

Well, whether your cuppa or not, it got people thinking, or at least woke them up a bit from their slumber. 🙂

Sure. Now let's discuss what sort of bag she may use...

Joking...

 

[ClaremontPhoto]

I always liked Bob Carlos Clarke -- went to his website and found he died in march of this year...

Thank you for that.

I appreciated his work. Not my thing at all, but my thing wouldn't have been his thing either.

 

[Bertram2]

Tho this isn't what I am interested in i liked some of them anyway. These photos are good !
There is creativity, craft and knowledge, and a clearly developed esthectical concept, presented with with a strict continuity . This earns at least respect IMO, even if one does not want to hang it on the bedroom wall.

Bertram

 

[Peter]

Thanks G Man for the link. I have to say that her work gives me vertigo! The movements and the sensory overdose of colors have that disorientating effect of going to a fair! My wife likes the Barbie doll looks though. Perhaps it is a woman thing?

 

[jl-lb.ms]

Well, I went to her website. This does not do it for me. I have to say, I dislike her photos rather intensely.

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks

Roger that. What a bunch of nutty bullsh*t..

 

[DougK]

She's obviously talented and I appreciate her technical competence, but her work makes my eyes bleed.