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Finding Home: Deb Schwedhelm by Eleonora RonconiApril 9th, 2015

Today I introduce Deb Schwedhelm‘s latest series Home Away.
Deb was born in Detroit, Michigan.

Rachel Wolfe: Bound By Water by Aline SmithsonNovember 8th, 2014

Rachel Wolfe has a new project and book, Bound by Water that interprets Japanese stories told over time as a way to remember history, real or imagined.

Japan Week: Michiko Makino: Toyko Kingyo by Aline SmithsonJuly 24th, 2014

This week Guest Editor, Yochi Nagata, shares work of contemporary Japanese photographers…

Photographer Michiko Makino was born in Gunma, Japan and has been exhibiting in Japan and i

Japan Week: Masaki Hirano: Money by Aline SmithsonJuly 23rd, 2014

This week Guest Editor, Yoichi Nagata, shares work of contemporary Japanese photographers…

5 billion Papiermark bill, Weimar Republic (Germany), 1923 — The Weimar Republic, wh

Japan Week: Mao Ishikawa: Here’s What the Japanese Flag Means to Me by Aline SmithsonJuly 22nd, 2014

©Mao Ishikawa, Ms.

Japan Week: Kazuo Yoshida: Air Blue by Aline SmithsonJuly 21st, 2014

This week Guest Editor, Yoichi Nagata, shares work of contemporary Japanese photographers…

©Kazuo Yoshida, AirBlue22

This week, I am thrilled to have friend, photographer and Editor

Tsutomu Yamagata: Thirteen Orphans by Aline SmithsonDecember 21st, 2013

Yesterday, I met an old lady at side of lotus pond and talked for two hours. She went to the front line as a nurse during World War II and saw incredibly hideous scenes almost every day.

Julia Fullerton-Batten: Tokyo by Aline SmithsonOctober 23rd, 2013

Shimo Supermarket, 2013 from Tokyo

Julia Fullerton-Batten is a fine art and editorial photographer who began her career by creating staged portraits of adolescent females captured througho