Apr 14, 2012
Tokyo Documentary Photography Workshop is happy to announce that we will be offering one tuition-free scholarship to a photographer from the Tohoku region of Japan, who was a victim of the Great East Japan Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Disaster.
Apr 11, 2012
TDPW (Tokyo Documentary Photography Workshop) places an emphasis on the photo editing in the lectures. In Japan, photographers tend to do the majority of their work individually, however for a photo story that intends to convey messages, photo editing plays an essential part when thinking about how the photo story will be interpreted by others....
Apr 3, 2012
TDPW (Tokyo Documentary Photography Workshop) places an emphasis on the photo editing in the lectures. In Japan, photographers tend to do the majority of their work individually, however for a photo story that intends to convey messages, photo editing plays an essential part when thinking about how the photo story will be interpreted by others....
Apr 1, 2012
Ms.Nozomi Iijima, a participant of TDPW 2011, visited the Paris Photo 2011 and also had her portfolio reviewed at the nofound PHOTOFAIR. Here is the report from her.
Mar 26, 2012
I took part in the Tokyo Documentary Photography Workshop because I wanted to learn how to tell a story. For six months I worked on a photography project based on refugees in central Japan. During the shooting period I received regular feedback from my instructor James Whitlow Delano. Then in August I met up with...
Mar 22, 2012
TDPW (Tokyo Documentary Photography Workshop) places an emphasis on the photo editing in the lectures. In Japan, photographers tend to do the majority of their work individually, however for a photo story that intends to convey messages, photo editing plays an essential part when thinking about how the photo story will be interpreted by others.Since...
Mar 13, 2012
TDPW (Tokyo Documentary Photography Workshop) places an emphasis on the photo editing in the lectures. In Japan, photographers tend to do the majority of their work individually, however for a photo story that intends to convey messages, photo editing plays an essential part when thinking about how the photo story will be interpreted by others....
Mar 12, 2012
Since the TDPW workshop last summer, I have busy taking routine editorial assignments such as portraits or interviews with a positive mental attitude mixed with my usual subtle fatalism of “do not chase one who flees, do not reject one who comes”. I often accept assignments from the feature department from Asahi Shimbun (Newspaper) or...
Mar 8, 2012
“FUKUSHIMARCH: FUKUSHIMA, MARCH, PHOTO MONTH” is a month-long photo exhibition where three photographers share their personal photographic records made since 11 March 2011, when the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami led to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.
Feb 18, 2012
An interview with our guest lecturer, Photographer and Videographer Jake Price on the Tokyo Documentary Photography Workshop.
Feb 9, 2012
After the TDPW ended I continued photographing the elderly living alone. During the workshop I had some concerns about photography, but I finally decided to focus on one old man. At that time I wanted to build an intimate relationship with him. Now I feel the sense of distance for my subject seems clearer than...
Jan 31, 2012
It feels a bit strange that it has been more than half a year since the workshop finished last summer. I’ve been motivated very much by my friends after the workshop. The photo series I submitted to the TDPW was from my private project about Fukushima after the earthquake.
