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October 18, 2006. The Apple Store in the Shinsaibashi district of Osaka played host to the DESIGN MATTERS meeting.
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To Capture a Shaking Earth
Dutch journalist and photographer Kjeld Duits specializes in street fashion and natural disasters. One day he shoots the latest fashion trends in Tokyo’s Harajuku, the next day he may be on a plane to an area that was just flattened by an earthquake. He faces many of the same problems that every creative person struggles with. How do you get your message across, and how do you get your material to your client? But for Kjeld, these issues are a bit more extreme. How do you portray in one image the suffering of tens, and often hundreds of thousands of people? And how do you send your files when you are in a completely destroyed isolated village in the middle of the Himalayas, without phone, internet and electricity? Showing some of his actual photographs, Kjeld explained what he looks for in his images, and the technology and tools he uses in the field.
About the presenter
Born in the Netherlands, Kjeld Duits has lived and worked in Japan since 1982. He works as a journalist and photographer for several daily newspapers. Organizations like Associated Press, EPA, The Times, Wired Magazine and Australia's Herald Sun have carried his work and he has worked on TV and radio programs, for amongst others, the BBC and NHK. Over the years he has covered major news stories like the Kobe (1995), Taiwan (1999), India (2001) and Pakistan (2005) earthquakes. He covered the Tsunami Disaster of 2004 in Sri Lanka, Thailand and Aceh, Indonesia, as well as the horrific train accident near Osaka in April 2005. His site JapaneseStreets, documenting Japanese street fashion, was nominated for a Webby Award in 2003.
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| Kjeld explaining how he manages his data in the field.. |
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