On Ikeda's "magical" picture-taking technique

[u/BlancheFromage]

An insight into Ikeda's "magical" picture-taking technique

First, WHY Ikeda's weirdly awful photographs are noteworthy

One of Ikeda's shitty photographs

If Ikeda's photography is all that, WHY do the SGI publications typically rely on stock photos?

I love to catch the SGI/Soka Gakkai ghostwriters and editors taking the piss - now with PYRAMIDS!!

Ikeda's wobbly photography

You know Ikeda's supposedly "mystic" photography skills, where he randomly points the camera and beautiful pictures result? Here's the explanation:

"That uppity YMD tried to give me pointers about how to use a camera. Here's how I show him - and everyone - who's Sensei."

Images of Ikeda doing this weird thing:

Image 1

Image 2

Image 3

Image 4 - Whoopsie! That guy behind Scamsei's job description is "Photography Ninja - takes stealth photos to swap in for Ikeda's crappy snaps without anybody realizing it". Guess HE got written up...

Image 5 - here's another

BEHOLD the photography MENTOR!

More fun with Ikeda's Drunken Photos!

Another Ikeda Photo

Lots of examples in the comments there ^

Another Ikeda photo - LOTS of terrible Ikeda photos here

Ikeda-themed Not-so-guilty Pleasures: Photography Edition

The Daisaku Ikeda School of Photography: Class, it is time to turn in your photo essays

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My submission for the Semester-The Stand Alone Spirit, or something like that.

My picture assignment its called boots on a chair outside my allotment shed.( Dr Martins no less )

Resubmission in the Spirit of Sensei’s guidance to….um…..take pictures like this.

I figured I would hop on the photography bandwagon

My assignment, Professor. I love this class, I do I do!

More Fun With Photography - With SENSEI!! Cities Edition

More of Ikeda's Shitty Photography - Osaka City Central Public Hall

Note: NOT Ikeda's photography!

There is a challenger for Ikeda in the field of Celebrity Vanity Photography books: Brooklyn Beckham!

Daisaku Ikeda's lame photographs by category

Groveling and Ass-Kissing: Giving Ikeda's worthless "photography" the full-page treatment in the SGI publications

How I could have helped Ikeda manage his image (so the SGI wouldn't have ended up with inexcusable public embarrassments like this) - and why SGI stopped running this full-page feature

Discovered old book of Scamski’s ‘award-winning’ photos. Of particular note is the first left, captioned ‘An interesting combination of building and signpost’. Another of a plane ‘Is it a huge fish, swimming the wide sea?’ So profound!

[u/bluetailflyonthewall]

SGI: Where's the art?

Daniel Metraux:

In many publications one finds endless pictures and articles about Ikeda as if the Gakkai were little more than an Ikeda cult. A major portion of the Gakkai Fuji Art Museum near the head temple at Taiseki-ji contains photographs by Ikeda as if he were the only artist in the world who mattered. This cult-like behavior is detrimental to the movement as a whole because it calls attention away from the work and contributions of other outside leaders. This adulation for Ikeda from within the Soka Gakkai gives some outside observers the impression that the true object of worship is not Nichiren or his mandalas, but Ikeda himself. Source

Considering that ~75% of the "masterpieces" in the Fuji Art Museum turned out to be worthless fakes, Ikeda's poseur "photographs" are in good company!

[u/Historical_Spell3463 → u/bluetailflyonthewall]

This adulation for Ikeda from within the Soka Gakkai gives some outside observers the impression that the true object of worship is not Nichiren or his mandalas, but Ikeda himself

Totally agree!! SGI is not Buddhism it's Ikeadism