Tag: Hiroji Kubota

  • Hiroji Kubota, Photographer – The New York Times

    Hiroji Kubota, Photographer – The New York Times

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    Hiroji Kubota, Photographer Hiroji Kubota’s path to Magnum started in Japan when he worked as a fixer and translator for members of the legendary agency. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/11/18/hiroji-kubota-photographer/ He did, however, accept a beat-up Leica M3 from Burri. His life changed when he got a first edition of Henri Cartier-Bresson’s “The Decisive Moment” a…

  • North Korea, 2010 – Hiroji Kubota – Magnum

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    My first visit to Pyongyang in 18 years. Between 1978 and 1992 I had the opportunity to visit and stay in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), so called North Korea, 13 times, for a total of 9 months, traveling to all the provinces, covering all four seasons, all of which resulted in a…