Topic: Anyone know what happened to yamasaki ko-ji???

[aciel78]

Hello all,
           Anyone know what happened to yamasaki ko-ji?  This photographer from Osaka, japan had a photoblog on for a while along with his flickr images.  Now they are gone.  He was one of my main inspirations for black and white film photography.  Sad to see that his images are gone    

[di3s3l dav3]

i was asking someone that question today
this was  the answer i got:

yamasaki ko-ji:
Hometown:
    street
Currently:
    on the road
Occupation:
    unemployed drifter

such a pity he was one of my favourite photographers. a lonely business man always with a rangefinder in his pocket. i guess another victim of the recession

[moominsean]

it's a recent event, cuz he's in photos taken two weeks ago...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/maggot/5106670051/

why not ask one of his shooting friends?

[aciel78]

@moominsean,

                     that is a great idea.  thanks for the tip!

[aciel78]

He's back!

http://www.yamasakiko-ji.com/archives.php

awesome...

[Phil Bebbington]

That is one hell of a comeback!

[calbisu]

some powerful images, indeed

[jojonas~]

wow! that had quite an impact.. I really like the design on the site, even if the loading time was a bit harsh.

[Nigel]

I was unaware of his work, but it is quite inspirational. There's now a new link to Flickr.

Warning: one of these, on the first page, is definitely not work friendly!
edit: correction most of these are not work friendly!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/yamasakiko_ji/

[Ed Wenn]

wow! that had quite an impact.. I really like the design on the site, even if the loading time was a bit harsh.

Word! I started loading the page last Tuesday...I think it's still going.

 

[Francois]

Well, I think it took all my monthly bandwidth in a single go

[moominsean]

1998 called and wants its bandwidth back...

[Skorj]

Word! I started loading the page last Tuesday...I think it's still going.

It was slow for me too - took perhaps 2 seconds. Maybe 2.5 seconds. I really must dump my old 40Mb/s modem, and get something faster... Skj.

[Ed Wenn]

No-one likes a show-off, Skj!!