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Hiking the Kobotoke Pass
A winter walk along the old Kōshū Kaidō, over Kobotoke Pass to Mount Takao.
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KAIT Plaza: A Shell of Light
Tucked into a corner of the Kanagawa Institute of Technology (神奈川工科大学) campus in Atsugi, about an hour south-west of Tokyo, KAIT Plaza is a building you could walk past without noticing. Designed by Junya Ishigami + Associates and completed in 2020, it sits adjacen…
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Mapthread: Tell a Story with a Map
In 2016, Craig Mod and Dan Rubin published Koya Bound, a beautiful photo book covering an eight day hike on the Kumano Kodō pilgrimage trail in Japan. Alongside this they made a companion website with a map which scrolled alongside the narrative. The way the map followed the na…
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Postcards from Tokyo
Tokyo is a multitude of cities, blending residential and commercial spaces in unexpected ways. Its unique zoning laws allow small shops, restaurants, and businesses to exist seamlessly alongside homes in nearly every neighbourhood. Unlike many Western cities with strict separati…
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Strangers at Arms
During the COVID-19 pandemic, we came across an old, disused trail above our house, which led all the way up to a beautiful lookout point on the Kamakura coastline, where we lived at the time. We spent many happy weekends clearing the trail of debris to make it easier to walk, e…
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Autumn Between Journeys
Landing back in Munich after India and Sichuan felt jarring. Autumn had arrived and amid the crisp mornings and golden light it felt as if time had slowed down. We visited museums in Munich and across the border in Austria. It felt as if we had moved from a state of making histo…
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Chongqing
Though Anthony Bourdain visited neighbouring Chengdu twice—once for No Reservations (2006) and again for Parts Unknown (2016), he never visited Chongqing (重庆), which is a shame because I think it would have been right in his wheelhouse. This is what I imagine he might have…
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Sichuan’s Stone Carvings
Sichuan is renowned for its extraordinary legacy of Buddhist cave and cliff carvings, ranging from monumental statues to intimate grottoes. Many of these masterpieces, carved into sheer cliffs and forested hillsides, remain little known and rarely visited. Their remoteness has p…
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The Deep Salt Wells of Zigong
A weathered wooden derrick marks the site of an eleven-centimetre-wide borehole drilled 1,001 metres into the earth at Shenhaijing Salt Well (燊海井). Completed in 1835 during the Qing dynasty, it is widely regarded as the first artificially drilled well to surpass the thousa…
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The Road to Kangding
Our day began in the early morning chill of Xinduqiao, a town famed among photographers and travellers as a “paradise of light and shadow”. After breakfast, our taxi driver picked us up, and we headed south, tracing the winding roads toward the villages of Ritou and Dongfeng…
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The Phoblographer (Feed)
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We’ve Updated Our Canon S100 Review
Yes, nearly 20 years later, we've updated our Canon S100 review. Why? Well, you'll see in our review that we talk about how retro tech is back. And after being gifted one of these cameras, I found that it it's very capable of bringing me joy that Japanese cameras once brought me…
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Dear Apple: What the Hell are You Doing?
In 2019, I bought a 27-inch iMac that I still use every single work day. It's come with me from my old apartment to my current one where I still continue to use it. At one point I had this and a gaming PC as well as a MacBook Pro from maybe 2016 or so. I ended up giving the PC t…
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The Best Way to Protect Camera Gear
Hey pros! Listen up! Our photography insurance program is designed to be there when photographers really need it! We're giving you more than the competition can in different ways! Here's a little-known fact: the warranty of your camera or lens doesn't necessarily cover what happ…
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Midweekend
How to enjoy bad but not worse weather Dig the webcam at Poipu beach, on the south side of Kauai, near where I'll be for a week, starting tomorrow. Also, the turtles, in calmer weather. I love me a water matrix printer This fountain in Moravian Square (Moravské náměstí), i…
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