The book The Kindness of One is here!
Here it is. Our first book together; all images of Margaret Lansink and all poems by Rene van Hulst. Printed in two blacks and silver in a design by Akikio Wakabayashi.
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Shooting without a finder
Our personal viewfinder Photographers always use a viewfinder to give us their view of the world. Although…, we yesterday visited an exhibition of a photographer who does without.
Return of the artists
Artists gifts Here in Onishi, a number of houses are vacant. Left behind because of hope for a better future or simply because the owner passed over to another world.
Onishi
Onishi, an ordinary town in the rural parts of Japan, just above Tokyo. Slowly but surely its population is decreasing as there is not a lot of future for the youngsters, leaving the old Japanese inhabitants behind.
Omoiyari
Our trip to Japan is the second leg of our project The Art of Empathy. To understand what the human talent of empathy can do to bridge the divides in our current society.
Tranquility
Tranquility as social glue It has been a while since we have posted about our Japanese adventures. The only excuse we can come up with is the weather….
Kotoriya
Or in other words; small birdshop. Yes, this is our studio for the next 6 weeks of working on our project “The art of empathy”.
Stage 2: Japan is on!
This week we received the wonderful news that our project is going into stage 2 via an artist in residence in Japan.
