I spent much of 2025 working on this collection of essays by Japanese, Asian, European, and American curators, researchers, and artists, that looks back at Japanese photography’s place in the global historiography of the medium since the landmark exhibition New Japanese Photography held at MoMA in 1974.

For Ryudai Takano’s latest collection from his kasubaba series, published in conjunction with his retrospective at TOP museum in Tokyo, I contributed an essay, “An Ode to the Overlooked” looking at how his streetscape practice has evolved into a kind of photographic mindfulness.

T3 Photo Festival Tokyo 2024 focused on the exhibition New Japanese Photography held at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York in 1974. This exhibition has had a major, long-lasting impact on the study and understanding of Japanese photography overseas. To mark the fiftieth anniversary of this exhibition, I curated two projects for T3 that consider the legacy of this landmark exhibition.

Hitoshi Fugo has released his latest book KAMI with L’Artiere at Paris Photo 2025. A companion piece to his brilliant FLYING FRYING PAN, I edited this latest project which was decades in the making… a prescient book for these times.