No less a photography colleague than Edward Weston was a fan. “Making Waves: Japanese American Photography, 1920-1940” chronicles the often-exceptional camera work of 40 artists.

Beached Firefly Squid Light Up the Japanese Coast, Japan, 2013. The hotaru ika, or firefly squid, lives 2,000 feet below the water.

There's no way you can <em>really</em> reduce the photographic history of a place to just a few artists, let alone two. But the curators at an L.A. museum are trying.

There’s no real story to Shashingo: Learn Japanese with Photography. It is more about enjoying the moment. You are in Japan. You have a camera. You are learning the language.

It’s the type of image one expects to find in Lena Fritsch’s copiously illustrated “Ravens & Red Lipstick: Japanese Photography Since 1945.” A broad survey for Western audiences, the book ...

For those of us who can’t travel to see them in Japan, we have some beautiful ones right here in Southern California.

After reaching its Kickstarter goal last year and launching on Steam back in February, the delightful-looking photography-meets-language-learning game Shashingo: Learn Japanese with Photography ...