AlfieinJapan
40 years old
Tokyo
Male
About
I'm a British photographer who now lives permanently in Japan working as a photojournalist as well as teaching photography in Tokyo. I'm freelance but also currently under contract to the Nippon News agency. I've photographed travel and documentary work in the UK and Europe but now concentrates on Japan, having shot throughout the country but particularly in Tokyo, Hiroshima, Hokkaido and Kyoto.
From 1991 until 2001 Iworked in the music business in the UK, as Press Director for Nimbus Records and then as General Manager for Black Box Music in London. During that time my music photography was published in magazines and newspapers across the world. I also photographed Peter Gabriel's WOMAD Festivals for some years and in 2002 was chief photographer and photo editor for the official website of Glastonbury Festival.
I have a daily photoblog here:
http://blog.alfiegoodrich.com
Full biography, links to some interviews with me, here:
http://blog.alfiegoodrich.com/index.php?x=about
Likes(1)
Music
David Sylvian, Stone Roses, The Doors, Joni Mitchell, The Grid, Boards of Canada, Soundtracks, Maurice Ravel, Jean-Michel Jarre, Kraftwerk, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Oceansize, Depeche Mode, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Cuban, World, Classical, Blues, Jazz
Movies + Directors
Apocalypse Now, 2001, Silent Running, Kikujiro, Hanabi, Hayayo Miyazaki, Laputa [Castle in The Sky], The Fugitive, Star Wars, Rainman, The Natural, Lawrence of Arabia, Withnail and I, Good Pork Pie, Mad Max, Two Lane Blacktop, Pulp Fiction, Shawshank Redemption, Memoirs of a Geisha, Azumi, anything with Takeshi Kitano in..... this list is the tip of the iceberg.
Books + Writers
Haruki Murakami, David Mitchell, Geoff Dyer, Sebastian Faulks, Tom Wolfe, JD Salinger, Aldous Huxley, Arthur C Clarke, Isaac Asimov, George Orwell, Hermann Hesse, David Peace
TV
Places I Love
Tokyo, Izu, Monmouth, Brecon Beacons, Isle of Skye, West Coast of Scotland, Pembrokeshire, The Gower Peninsula, Hiroshima, Shikoku, The Pennines, Dungeness, The Cotswolds, Devon, Cornwall
Anne Bollwahn, Jul 23, 2009:
Great mind behind the camera!
God eyes, quiet and knowing "flow", open spirirt and a bright soul and sensibility
- a pleasure to look at!
Jeremiah James, Jul 17, 2009:
love your work man
das-kollektiv.net, Feb 19, 2008:
Gilbert, May 30, 2007:
Hey there. Thanks very much for the kind words sir! Hope all is well with you. Take care, Gilbert
(the sounds of) kaleidoscope, May 24, 2007:
thanks for the add Alfie!