Tag: Hiroji Kubota

  • Hiroji Kubota, Photographer – The New York Times

    Hiroji Kubota, Photographer – The New York Times

    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 month later. “When I opened it, I said, ‘My gosh, what is this?’ ” he recalled. “That motivated me. That’s when I became serious.” His fate was sealed when Burri showed him a Swiss magazine that featured his Gaucho pictures. “It shocked me like crazy,” he said. “I knew then I wanted to be a photographer.”

  • North Korea, 2010 – Hiroji Kubota – Magnum

    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 great diversity of coverage. For this recent trip, my first to the DPRK in 18 years, I was given a permit to stay for 11 days, so I decided to concentrate on the capital city of Pyongyang

    Link: North Korea, 2010