Tibetan Girls Running, Labrang, Amdo, Tibet, 1996
Archival Pigment Print,
16 x 20 | 20 x 24 in.
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The Wuxingting Teahouse At Dusk. Jiangsu Province, 1994
Archival Pigment Print
16 X 20 In.
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Suspicious glance from a young theatrical performer at
the stage door, Beijing, China, 2001
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13 x 18.75 in. | 19.75 x 23.5 in
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Dong people carrying the rice harvest down from the terraced fields,
Zhaoxing, Guizhou Province, China, 1999
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Portrait of a young boy found several kilometers inland from the sea, swept there by the great Tsunami,
Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, 2011
Archival Pigment Print
13 x 18.75 in.
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Relentless flow of Tokyo commuters up from the subway, Japan, 2005
Archival Pigment Print
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Gazing out from Shinkansen Bullet Train, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, 2001
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Unloading coal from a canal barge,
Near Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China, 1996
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Absorbed in a newspaper, commuter train near Tokyo, Japan, 2009
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Veiled infant, Gansu Province, China, 1994
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Dong twins, Zhaoxing, Guizhou, China, 1999
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Lunch break, Shanghai, China, 1995
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Peasants crowding the rails of a river steamer,
Three Gorges, Yangtze River, China, 1997
Archival Pigment Print
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Pony tails, piercing glance and a cigarette, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan, 1998
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Night phone call and a smoke, Hatagaya, Tokyo, Japan, 2002
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In the path of lenses and avoiding them in front of Kaminari Gate, Tokyo, Japan, 1999
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James Whitlow Delano, b. 1960, is an American-born reportage photographer based in Tokyo, Japan, and one of today’s foremost photographers of Asia. Delano's substantial oeuvre of photography in Asia, characterized by his ethereal use of vignette and partial defocus, captures quiet subjects immersed in moments of passage.
His work has appeared worldwide in numerous magazines and photo festivals, from Visa Pour L’Image to Rencontres D’Arles to Noorderlicht, and has been awarded internationally, including the Alfred Eisenstadt Award (from Columbia University and LIFE magazine), Leica’s Oskar Barnack, Picture of the Year International, NPPA, and PDN, among many others. James Whitlow Delano is a grantee of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. His series Empire was the first ever one-person show at La Triennale di Milano Fine Arts Museum. His book “Black Tsunami: Japan 2011," published by FotoEvidence, received a 2012 PX3 Award.
SELECT COLLECTIONS
La Triennale di Milano Fine Arts Museum, Milano, Italy
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Museo di Fotografia Contemporanea, Milano, Italy
Museum of Photographic Arts, Dubois Library, San Diego, CA
Noorderlicht Photography Festival, Groningen, Netherlands
Leica Camera, Permanent Leica Book Archive, Solms, Germany
An ocean going ship sits where it came to rest in the debris of the great Tsunami that hit,
Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, 2011
Archival Pigment Print
13 x 18.75 in.
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Portrait of a young boy found several kilometers inland from the sea, swept there by the great Tsunami,
Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, 2011
Archival Pigment Print
13 x 18.75 in.
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Recovery workers, probably police, wearing hazmat suits to protect them from radiation, enter 20 km
no-entry zone. Route 6, Minamisōma, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, 2011
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Sakura cherry blossoms have opened on a tree that seems to rise right out of the rubble.
Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, 2011
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There was no escape. Resident of Rikuzen-Takata walks at the high water mark of the great tsunami several kilometers from the sea and still lumber is piled up on rooftops, Rikuzen-Takata, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, 2011
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Father brushes his daughter's teeth at an unheated evacuation center for survivors of the Tsunami
in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, 2011
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An elderly woman shuffles through a city wiped off the face of the earth by the Japan Tsunami,
Rikuzen-Takata, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, 2011
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Rice field salinated by sea water from the tsunami.
Inside nuclear no-entry zone, Fukushima, Japan, 2011
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Sunflowers wilted after families came to their family graves a few hundred meters outside nuclear no-entry zone. Near Kaibama, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, 2011
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Sakura (cherry blossoms) bloom and older women climb a hill that provided sanctuary from the mightly tsunami, Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, 2011
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Once a great forest of 70,000 pines covered this oceanfront before the Tsunami. The land has subsided and the sea undercuts roots beneath the stumps. Rikuzen-Takata, Iwate Prefecture, 2011
Archival Pigment Print
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Twilight on a lonely highway through the ruins of the tsunami zone
of Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, 2011
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