T-Enami.org
About Us
Rob Oechsle with 3-D camera and school children in a Tokyo temple ground.
Photo Copyright 2006 Torin Boyd / Polaris Images
Our Business
Oechsle currently travels between the USA and Asia selling non-ionic, biodegradable wetting agents for the golf course and horticulture industry. Need wetter water? Drop me a line.
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Who We Are
Oechsle formerly lived in Okinawa, Japan for almost 35 years. Originally sent there with the US Army as a Pharmacy Technician during the Vietnam War, he remained in Okinawa after the end of that conflict. Besides marrying a local girl and raising three daughters there, he had too many irons in the fire -- including fifteen years as a professional photographer while writing and teaching history on the side. Before there was a Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, or the JCII Photo Salon, he had already produced three major "History of Photography" Exhibitions, and several minor traveling shows. In 1987, he published a comprehensive Western art history of Okinawa that went through four editions, and more recently an advanced English Conversation guide, both books being written in Japanese. Other vain and embarrassing pursuits will not be mentioned. Stereo-photography, and the history of Japanese photography in general has been an active hobby during all of his years in Okinawa. These interests are what led him, along with others, to dig for answers about the once enigmatic T. Enami -- Japan's greatest stereo-photographer. In the end, Enami and the work he produced turned out to be a much bigger (and surprising) story than just a few dog-eared stereoviews.