Forty Photos from Japan

The inaugural edition of the popular "Forty Photos From" series: A colorful peek into this fascinating, confusing, amusing nation from the perspective of a photographer who lived and traveled in Japan for one year. It's fairly easy to get carried away with images of Eastern cultures, so Peskin challenged herself to create a concise yet illuminating view of Japan in just forty photos. Subjects include noisy game arcades and peaceful rice paddies, a Tokyo shopping arcade and a small town's summer festival, content snow monkeys in their own hot springs and Japanese kids hamming it up for the camera. Travel through forty photos to experience the traditions, contradictions, humor and beauty that is modern-day Japan.