Year: 2014

Thank You

@miho_kajioka My week of BurnDiary is ending and this is the last post. It was my first time to use Instagram, so my first task was to open my account and learn how it works. Also it is very rare for me to use colors. I usually do black and white, and they are all …

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Are you Japanese?

About 15 years ago when I was visiting Berlin, I met a Japanese girl who was born and raised in Berlin. It was at our mutual friend’s flat. She asked me “Are you Japanese?” in Japanese. I said “Yes.”. “Where in Japan?” she asked. “Okayama.” I answered. “Where in Okayama?” she asked. “Tsuyama” I answered. …

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Visited my friend’s house. –Miho Kajioka http://mihokajioka.com facebook.com/mihokajiokartist

Hello October.

Hello October. Today, I found a lot of Higanbana on the riverside, its English name is Lycoris radiata or a red spider lily, a wild flower we see from August to the beginning of autumn. When the bright red color starts to fade we know that autumn has arrived. Those brown leaves under the flowers …

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Traditional Japanese Frames

I visited a small factory in Kyoto where they make the traditional Japanese frames with special silk. The making of these frames are a delicate and beautiful process. In the future, I hope to use them for my photographic works.— Photo by Miho Kajiokahttp://mihokajioka.com facebook.com/mihokajiokartist

Sushi Restaurant

My friend from Kyoto took me to a sushi restaurant. The chef is his friend and all the customers are locals. The chef told us that so many good restaurants have lost their soul by advertising in guidebooks. Tourists occupy the seats and locals can’t go there anymore. That restaurant (I was forbidden to mention …

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Eric Gottesman – Sudden Flowers

Eric Gottesman Sudden Flowers “If given just a bit of water and light, we will suddenly blossom.” Over the past fifteen years in a neighborhood in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, a group of young people that came to call themselves Sudden Flowers worked with me to make photographs that represented the experiences they endured in their …

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Malin Fezehai – A Kind of Purgatory

Malin Fezehai A Kind of Purgatory By some estimates, 60,000 African asylum-seekers — mainly from Sudan and Eritrea — reside in Israel. For these men, women and children, the journey to the country is perilous: traversing hostile countries, often encountering bandits and facing the Egyptian and Sinai deserts before they even reach the border. Many …

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