Yasu Suzuka

My friend Yasu Suzuka is a well-known Kyoto artist who made a name for himself as a printmaker early in his career and now focuses almost exclusively on pin-hole camera photography. The theme of his recent work is images of Buddhism -- hands clasped in the gassho mudra and variations on the Heart Sutra. He's also an accomplisned maker of soba noodles and an aspiring tea master.  I  know Yasu from the time my friend Robin Bullard served as his apprentice in the early 1970s. Yasu was constantly invoking his motto back then (and maybe still is): Ja, hard working!