Japan Archives - Page 2 of 2 - Alicia Fox Photography, Crescent Head NSW Photographer

Greenroom Festival 2009 – Music Art Film

June 01, 2009 aliciafox Japan, surfing tags: donavon frankenrieter, festival, greenroom, Japan, musician, photography, Portraits, surf, surf music, surfer 0 comments

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Pic: Donavon Frankenreiter I had a brilliant weekend at the Greenroom Festival in Yokohama. It’s a music festival, based around surf culture. There was a whole lot of amazing artwork including live mural paintings from the Gravity Free crew. These guys are prolific, and James and I will be hooking up with them again to help get their artwork out to the world. The music was a lot of fun, and the floorboards on the huge wooden theatre were literally bouncing with thousands of dancers. Highlights for me were Dachambo, Natty, Rickie-G, Matt Grundy and Donavon Frankenreiter. I got to meet up with Matt and Donavon after 5 years, when I last saw them on their Australian Tour in 2004. It was a reminder that this is a crazy, small world – and I love it. Pic: Me sporting a new headpiece from Tokyo Designers Chaco, with some of my new friends, backstage at the Greenroom Read More

What the kids are up to in Tokyo

May 25, 2009 aliciafox Fashion, Japan, Travel Photography tags: anime, cosplay, costumes, Fashion, fashion photographer, fashion photography, harajuku, Japan, japanese, photography, Portraits, travel, Travel Photography 0 comments

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Yesterday I had an amazing day in Tokyo, meeting a whole lot of interesting young people. They have a lot to say to the world, and they choose to do say it through the way they dress. Many of the teenagers here spend six days a week at school, after school club sports and study classes. Sunday is their only day off and they choose to express their individuality through extreme dress. A lot of the costumes are based on anime characters. Animation is unbelievably popular in Japan, amongst children, teenagers and adults. Kids in Harajuku, Tokyo ‘become’ their characters once a week, and hang around other people doing the same – From cute dolls with pink hair, to gothic-like characters covered in piercings. Anything goes! -Alicia Read More

Online Shop coming soon

May 23, 2009 aliciafox Fashion, Japan tags: Fashion, Japan 0 comments

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Thanks for all the feedback about my blog. It’s been great to hear from everybody and find out who is following my journey in and around the place. I have had more and more people ask whether I my photos are for sale, so I will start working on an Online Store page and let you know when it’s up on my website www.aliciafox.net Until then, I’m going to go and enjoy the sunshine and head up to Harajuku tomorrow to get some photos of the girls and boys dressing up in some of the worlds most extreme fashion. Peace x Read More

Getting Inspired

May 19, 2009 aliciafox Japan, Travel Photography tags: article, beach, chiba, Japan, journalist, journey, magazine, newspaper, nihon, ocean, onjuku, Photo Journalist, report, sea, submission, surf, surfing, train, travel, travel photographer, Travel Photography 0 comments

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James and I were looking for inspiration for our next article submission, so we jumped on the local train and headed down the coast to Onjuka. We walked from the quite train station, past streets of deserted houses in overgrown yards, to a beach of half white and half black sand. The coastal holiday town was deserted on this windy Sunday afternoon, all except for a few keen surfers who took their longboards out on the completely flat ocean (and I’m not exaggerating. We watched the ocean for about half and hour and not a single ripple came through). Thankfully, we were more successful on our mission than the local surfers, and the change of scenery gave us inspiration for a great photo article….I’ll tell you all about it once it’s been published. Read More

I love where I live

May 17, 2009 aliciafox Japan, Photography Tips, Travel Photography tags: australian photographer, beach, black sand, boat, chiba, chopsticks, ecology, environment, farming, fishing, holiday, ichinomya, Japan, journalist, management, name, ocean, Photo Tips, photography, photos, planting, rice; field, rubish, sea, seedlings, silhouette, silhouettes, surf, surfing, sustainability, taito, tetrapod, travel photogarpher, Travel Photography, tutorial, ume, waste 0 comments

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Here are some photos of around where I live, in Ichinomya in Chiba, Japan… I got up at 4:30am to get some sunrise shots on the beach. It was Sunday, and even at sunrise the beach is crowded with surfers – many from Tokyo on their weekend break – quite possibly their one day off each week. Technical: I exposed for the background of this image to silhouette the figures against the back light. By setting the white balance to flash, I enhanced the colour temperature to an even warmer tone than the true early morning light. Black, volcanic sand with tetrapods protecting the land from typhoon swells and tsunamis. People leave their surfboards, bikes and shoes lying around, because nobody steals things in Japan. I love the morning sunlight on this boat. Technical: The hazy atmosphere diffused the sun to soften the warm early-morning sunlight. I shot at a fairly wide-angle to distort the shape of the boat and enhance the surreal feeling of the image. A few of our neighbours, with rice paddies in the foreground. Japanese people tend to have different taste in housing colours, to what I’m used to back in Australia. Pink is a bit […] Read More

Tokyo through my eyes…

May 11, 2009 aliciafox Japan, Travel Photography, Uncategorized tags: Japan, Portraits, Travel Photography, Uncategorized 0 comments

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Some recent shots from the capital. Read More

Alicia’s First Japan Blog

May 06, 2009 aliciafox Japan, Photography Tips, Travel Photography tags: Japan, Photo Tips, Travel Photography 0 comments

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Hi and welcome to my first blog entry. I am Alicia Fox and I’m a Professional Photographer from Melbourne, living in Japan. I live in a little coastal town called Ichinomya – the epicentre of Japanese surfing culture. Everyday I am surrounded by beaches and farmland, with Tokyo city only 1 hour away. It is the perfect balance of work, fun and inspiration. I moved my life to Japan for a cultural shock. I am inspired by extremes and new cultures. So far I have found Japanese people to be the most polite and generous that I have come across. Everyday things like vending machines on nearly every corner, and heated toilet seats are uniquely Japanese and still make me smile every time I come across them. Cartoon porn magazines and Maid Cafes are something that would probably never take off anywhere else in the world, but are just some of the things that make Japan so unique and exciting. I am currently working on a range of projects including my first solo photo book, photographic submissions for Australian and international magazines/newspapers, and stock photos for Alamy (U.K) and Gekko Images (Australia). On top of this, I am about to […] Read More