japan - an inattentive reader

okura

February 24, 2017October 31, 2016

hotel okura just added some galleries to my photography website monocula In may 2015 I had the opportunity to visit the Hotel Okura located in central Tokyo and directly across the road … more…

teapot

November 14, 2016October 21, 2014

yoshiharu fuwa leading designer of japanese kitchenware, specifically kettles and teapots , who passed away today aged 72.

head in the clouds, feet of clay

October 16, 2010

casalgrande ceramic cloud is a joint project between architect kengo kuma, and italian company casalgrande padana celebrating their 50th year in business. the ceramic cloud is kuma’s first public work … more…

kurokawa’s capsule tower demolition

January 19, 2020July 28, 2009

the word iconic is flung around when talking about buildings scheduled for demolition far too often for anyone’s good, but in the case of kurokawa’s capsule building in tokyo, the … more…

my photography: k e n e d w a r d s | p h o t o g r a p h y

plenty of gentlemen, not just two

… on the 19^th and 20^th of december the city was enveloped in a cold freezing fog. the skies were leaden and there were only a very few hours of daylight.

take the winds of march with beauty

“daffodils come before the swallow dares, and take the winds of march with beauty”

shakespeare; the winter’s tale

blue in burano

feeling a little blue by a canal in burano

montmartre

montmartre <p>in the later days of september 2021 i went to stay in paris. it was only the second time i’d left the uk since the pandemic began. (like many others my perceptions of passing months and years have been strangely altered. i still, even now, tend to think of ‘last year’ as 2019.) the […]

re-organisation

a bit of housekeeping …