HESO Magazine

Modern Japan Photographed with Holga 120S

Manny Santiago — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:15:56 +0000

In part II of the series Manny Santiago looks at Modern Japan via the Holga 120S. Part I, III, IV, V, VI and VII are viewable here.

Pop Zeitgeist Day of the Locust

Sean Lotman — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:55:09 +0000

Of all the major metropolitan cities in America, none deserve the misanthrope’s fury more than Los Angeles. After all, what urban area better represents the false promises of contemporary American Dreams than the one that declares you’re special and deserve your own TV show, only to exchange that dangling carrot for a dishwasher’s rag or [...]

HESO Photo of the Week from Arnaud De Grave

Arnaud De Grave — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:57:13 +0000

Cultural river bank restauration in Lillooet, BC In Lillooet, British Columbia, about 250 km north of Vancouver, I was involved in helping a small group of First Nations’ volunteers from the Sekw’el’was tribe and some conservationist scholars who had been working to restore a riparian (i.e. a piece of land close to water, a river, [...]

A Study of American Power by BBC Documentary Filmmaker Adam Curtis

Manny Santiago — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:50:27 +0000

“Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.” — Hassan-i Sabbah Henry Kissinger called power the ultimate aphrodisiac. We can see how power attracts all sorts of people toward [...]

HESO Photo of the Week from SNJEZANA JOSIPOVIC

Manny Santiago — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 22:21:10 +0000

HM: Looking through your photos, there is a sense of a powerful personal aspect at work here. SJ: That is intentional, because I do make photos for myself. And because of myself and maybe, I don’t know, but I’m trying to find something out about myself. Then comes everything else. It is that connection between [...]

Sobazushi at Owariya Soba in Kyoto

Manny Santiago — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:51:19 +0000

Visualize if you will, a spry young man in his work kimono, made of an easy to clean light fabric, walking down the dirt-paved roads of the old capital Kyōto to the clickety-clackety of hundreds of Japanese sandal-wearing passers-by as they go about their daily business, smiling and nodding while the deciduous trees rain orange [...]

Modern Japan Photographed with Lomo LC-A

Manny Santiago — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 18:16:04 +0000

In part I of the series Manny Santiago looks at Modern Japan via the Lomo LC-A. Part II, III, IV and V are viewable here.

Pop Zeitgeist American Spring Imminent

Sean Lotman — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 15:07:04 +0000

When we consider a society of grotesque economic contrasts, Paris, autumn, 1788, is a fine starting point. France had its own 99%–in fact, less than one half of one percent of the population belonged to a noble family. They sequestered themselves in large estates or the proverbial ivory tower. Imagine starving mobs roaming septic gutters [...]

Mochitsuki New Year in Japan Making Mochi

Marshall Samson — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 14:18:14 +0000

Come the Japanese New Year, when some particularly enthusiastic families and co-workers across the archipelago once again dust off their bamboo rice steamers, big wooden hammers, not forgetting the Sake, and head off to the local community center, school, or as in my case, the abandoned yacht club, it raises the hairs on the neck [...]

I Wrote This For You

Manny Santiago — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:54:36 +0000

It goes like the joke: A guy walks into a bar in Tokyo, orders a beer and looks around for people, mostly men, fondling, mostly large, black, analog, cameras. Eyes peer up over pint glasses as the man approaches with his own large, black, analog camera and sets it and the beer down with satisfying [...]