Photographs is a book by Kathy Ryan featuring more than four hundred images organized into five sections: Portraits, Documentary, Photo-Illustration, Style and Projects that have been published in The New York Times Magazine over the last three decades. Kenji Aoki’s image from “Thank You for Smoking: Barbecue-Pit Flavor, Minus the Pit,” published September 14, 2008 […]

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Mechanical Wonders: The Sandoz Collection

Designed by Collins, The Permanent Mark project was created for the 10th anniversary of September 11th. Quite fittingly, they asked Kenji Aoki to photograph this beautiful design which was intended to “serve as a symbol abstract enough to hold anyone’s interpretation of that morning but suggestive enough to relate to the event.”

The Permanent Mark Project

Kenji Aoki for the September/October issue of Psychology Today.

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Kenji recently photographed a story on the gender gap in Asia, entitled “Unnatural Selection” for the July/August issue of Psychology Today.

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Congratulations to Peter Hapak and Kenji Aoki for being featured in PDN’s Photo Annual 2011: Magazine/Editorial category. Peter photographed Blame for ESPN Magazine. Kenji photographed a blue fin tuna for The New York Times Magazine.

Read Tracey Lewis’ recent blog post where she talks about last week’s successful event, Japan: ‘Rising’, and how people were gathered around Kenji Aoki’s donated print (featured below).

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Japan Rising Website

Stunning images of sugar photographed by Kenji Aoki for the New York Times Magazine. The article, written by health writer Gary Taubes, talks about the negative affects sugar has on our bodies when consumed in large quantities.

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Kenji AOKI for TIME magazine.

Kenji recently shot for the New York Times Magazine. The article “Coffee’s Slow Dance” is featured in this weekend’s issue.

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Kenji Aoki recently shot the new Vostro V130 for Dell’s ‘Work Beautifully’ campaign. The Vostro V130 is “the ideal partnership of form and function”.

Work Beautifully

Kenji on set for a video he recently shot for Dell.

These are images from a holiday story Kenji recently did for MORE magazine.

Kenji created these images for Vogue Nippon.

This is from the set of a Nike project Kenji recently completed.

These are images Kenji made for an editorial story “Hair Mode” for a Japanese magazine.

Kenji Aoki recently photographed the cover for NYT T Magazine’s Fall 2010 Design Issue. Aoki is moving to New York City in October.

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Congratulations to Aoki, Markku, Nagy, Schmidt, and Smári for being honored in the current 200 best advertising photographers in the world selected by Archive Magazine.

Thank You for Smoking Barbecue-pit flavor, minus the pit.

New York might not be the country’s barbecue capital, butthanks to places like Daisy May’s, Dinosaur, Blue Smoke, RUB and new arrivals like Hill Country, Bar Q and Wildwood,pork is smoking in this town. It has also been smoking in my 350-square-foot apartment, where I’ve been determined […]

(article reprint) Long known for cutting-edge design, Japan’s capital continues to service all of the senses. Written by Eric C. Shiner Photography by KENJI AOKI