Punctum - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Punctum. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
Umi Fukuma "The Garden of the Gods"
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- 2008-11-11 - 2008-11-16
As he releases the shutter, Fukuma lets his imagination run on the border between self and other. The serene silence captured in his photographs reflects the innermost recesses of his mind. This is his (...)
Yoko Itteki "Regression"
[0] [1]- Media: Photography
- 2008-11-04 - 2008-11-09
On view at Punctum from November 4th is "Regression" by Yoko Itteki, photographer who captures precious moments with pinhole camera. "I find it quite fascinating when the stream of time is first fixated (...)
Tomo Ando Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Art Party
- 2008-10-14 - 2008-11-01
Ando is an Osaka-based painter, who takes animals as her main motif, often rendered in characteristic rounded forms. Ando's work gives viewers a soothing sense of relief, but her paintings of the back (...)
Aki Toiya "A Crazed Page 02"
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Art Party - Art Talk
- 2008-09-24 - 2008-10-11
This 4th project exhibition at Punctum invites Keishin Nakaseko as a guest curator and hold "A Crazed Page", a series exhibition consisting of 3 separate shows. 2nd edition of the series introduces (...)
Joy Kawakubo "Lucid Dream"
[0] [1]- Media: Photography
- 2008-09-16 - 2008-09-21
Kawakubo officially started her career as a photographer last year. Her unique sensitivity is reflected on her work sometimes filled with a plenty of light, while at times suffused with a glimmer of light. (...)
Katsuyoshi Tsutsumi "Sampling"
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- 2008-09-09 - 2008-09-14
Tsutsumi describes the moment he releases the shutter as a moment of "congruence between coincidence and certainty". He believes that a photograph only takes its form at the very moment when his instinctive (...)
Tetsuya Nagato "Needle Juice"
[0] [0]- Media: Photography - Art Party
- 2008-08-19 - 2008-09-03
Tetsuya Nagato has been active not only as an artist but also as an art director and graphic designer. This exhibition showcases his photography work. While Nagato began taking photos in his late teens, (...)
Akane Yanase "A Crazed Page 01"
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Art Party - Art Talk
- 2008-07-29 - 2008-08-16
This 4th project exhibition at Punctum will invite Keishin Nakaseko as a guest curator and hold "A Crazed Page", a series exhibition consisting of 3 separate shows. Nakaseko curated the exhibition entitled (...)
Koichi "The Palace of Dream"
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- 2008-07-20 - 2008-07-27
Showcasing photographs this artist took in off-limits premises and torn-down buildings. Although the artist has worked mainly on portrait photographs for years, he focused this time on the interior of (...)
Mitsuyo Okada "The Place Closest to the Sun"
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- 2008-07-08 - 2008-07-13
On view in this first solo exhibition by Mitsuyo Okada are snap shots capturing views on rooftops of department stores and buildings. "Inspiration for this series came to me when I went up to the rooftop (...)
Masaki Zushi "Innocent"
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- 2008-07-01 - 2008-07-06
This exhibition showcases monochrome photographs that Zushi has been working on for years. Printing on photographic paper that is either difficult to obtain or no longer available, Zushi produces beautifully (...)
Emiko Imamura "Crossing"
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- 2008-06-24 - 2008-06-29
In this first solo exhibition, Imamura presents portrait photographs of one male sitter, whom she's been shooting for 2 years. While Imamura started this project with the hope to capture something invisible, (...)
Masaru Eguchi "Gift"
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Photography - Art Party
- 2008-06-07 - 2008-06-21
Masaru Eguchi participated in a three-person exhibition at Punctum in January this year. This up-and-coming young artist will present the culmination of "Gift", the series he has been working on vigorously (...)
Yoshiko Seino "A good day, good time"
[0] [1]- Media: Photography
- 2008-05-10 - 2008-06-04
This photographer has been known for her unique perspective and sense of depth in her landscape and still life works since the beginning of her career. Surprisingly though, her stance toward photography (...)
Kahori Miyagawa Exhibition
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- 2008-04-22 - 2008-05-04
Keiko Kurita "H2O"
[0] [1]- Media: Photography
- 2008-04-01 - 2008-04-13
Exhibition of works on the theme of water taken at Enoshima Aquarium. Also featuring new works shot in winter in places like Iceland and Norway. Reception: April 5th (Sat), 17:00-19:00
Yoshibumi Okabe "Bali Kaze"
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- 2008-02-26 - 2008-03-02
Snapshots taken in Bali will be on display in slideshow format using a projector.
Tomoe Murakami + Noriko Yabu + Masaru Eguchi Exhibition
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- 2008-01-19 - 2008-02-09
[Image: Noriko Yabu]
Kayoko Kohara "Reflected in Water"
[0] [1]- Media: Photography
- 2007-12-17 - 2007-12-23
Kayoko Kohara is known for producing photographs featuring shadows. In this exhibition, she presents photographs of shadows reflected on the surface of water. Approximately 14 photographs.
Kazuto Imura "Dream Landscape"
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- 2007-12-03 - 2007-12-16
In this exhibition productive photographer Kazuto Imura presents photographs of "new towns" in Kanagawa, suburban residential areas that began springing up after the war. Imura's photographs capture the (...)
Takao Ishibashi "Battle Against Bad Infinity"
[0] [1]- Media: Sculpture
- 2007-11-12 - 2007-11-18
Takao Ishibashi creates sculptures from bamboo and reinforced plastic in dark reds and black.
Yasu Suzuka "Samsara"
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- 2007-10-19 - 2007-11-10
Yuki Aoyama "Undercover"
[0] [3]- Media: Photography
- 2007-09-17 - 2007-09-30
Yuki Aoyama's photographs are known for capturing the ordinary residents of Tokyo in interesting poses. An earlier series was done on salarymen caught in mid-jump, seemingly floating in the air. This exhibit (...)
Shuki Koizumi "Doll Room"
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- 2007-09-10 - 2007-09-16
This exhibition is one of several art events in Ginza including works from alumni of Kanazawa Art College. Shuki Koizumi, a graduate of the school, works as an illustrator and photographer. This show (...)
"Tokyo 8x10" Exhibition
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- 2007-08-27 - 2007-09-09
8x10 cameras are large format cameras that use film measuring approximately 20 x 25cm. The Tokyo 8x10 Association is not your typical group of camera enthusiasts but a body of individuals who each put (...)
Yasuyuki Yagishita "Live in Hope"
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- 2007-08-13 - 2007-08-19
This exhibition is structured around the theme "transitions of the heart followed by hypothetical people." These works express the emotional process of a person who becomes unbalanced, enveloped into darkness, (...)
Toshiharu Suto "A Scene of the Future"
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- 2007-07-30 - 2007-08-05
Suto turns his camera towards the ordinary things that people tend to overlook in everyday life, but in which he detects a sense of unease. His body of work is a collection of the scattered fragments that (...)
"Travelin' Mood" Exhibition
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- 2007-07-16 - 2007-07-29
Punctum made a call for submissions of photographs taken with "travel" as their theme, and the selected submissions are on display in this exhibition.
"The Exposed of the Art vol.2 Photographs: 'Overexposed' curated by Shigeo Goto + ASP" Exhibition
[0] [2]- Media: Photography
- 2007-07-02 - 2007-07-15
This exhibition is a traveling exhibition that was previously held at Contemporary Art Space Osaka in May this year: a showcase of young photographers picked by editor and creative director Shigeo Goto. (...)
Joel Spiewak Exhibition
[0] [1]- Media: Photography
- 2007-06-08 - 2007-06-30
This exhibition, Spiewak's first in Tokyo, is a travelling exhibition that started at Gallery Trax in Yamanashi in April this year, showcasing the work of this 55 year old French photographer who lives (...)
Toshie Kusamoto "Hell"
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- 2007-05-28 - 2007-06-03
In Beppu City, Oita Prefecture, where Kusamoto was born, there are many tourist spots called "Hell". Kusamoto takes these as her basic motifs and brings out both the strangeness and the beauty in them. (...)
Emiko Nagahiro "Maze"
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- 2007-05-14 - 2007-05-27
This exhibition presents the photographs that Nagahiro has taken over the past ten years. The images show the 'maze' of the urban landscape as a metaphor for the 'labyrinth' the artist feels she has inside (...)
Fumie Umegaki "Masala"
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- 2007-04-23 - 2007-04-29
This exhibition presents snapshots that the artist took while on a trip around India; wandering the streets of India, she captured the atmosphere of market stalls selling spices and chai.
Akemigoto "Kiwi Heaven"
[0] [1]- Media: Photography
- 2007-04-09 - 2007-04-22
Akemigoto encountered New Zealand for the first time when visiting a friend there in 1993, and gradually became entranced by the country's magic. This photographer's works express thoughts and feelings (...)
"Ourselves and Myself" Exhibition
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- 2007-04-01 - 2007-04-08
Hatsumi Matsushita, Takayuki Igarashi and Eri Fukata all study at the art and architecture school of Waseda University, and are exhibiting self-portraits in this exhibition. Matsushita will show a series (...)
Punctum At First Sight 2007 #2: Kaori Furuhashi "Your Ideal Girl"
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2007-03-19 - 2007-04-01
"At First Sight" is a series of graduation exhibitions held at Punctum every spring. This exhibition introduces the work of Kaori Furuhashi.
Punctum At First Sight 2007 #1: Shinya Fukuda "In confusion seeking our true selves"
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- 2007-03-05 - 2007-03-18
"At First Sight" is a series of graduation exhibitions held at Punctum every spring. This exhibition introduces the work of Shinya Fukuda.
Yuko Ohkoso "Travel"
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- 2007-02-26 - 2007-03-04
This exhibition is a revival of "No Tatami Spot" that was held at the Chaillot National Theater in Paris in January this year. The aim of the show was to introduce Japanese artists to France, and it featured (...)
Taisuke Koyama "Dark Matter Vol.2"
[0] [3]- Media: Photography
- 2007-02-19 - 2007-02-25
For his second exhibition at Punctum since October last year, Koyama is presenting "Dark Matter" in celebration of the publication of his photo compilation of the same name. This exhibition mainly shows (...)
Masayuki Shioda "YORK SFACE"
[0] [1]- Media: Photography
- 2007-01-27 - 2007-02-17
Punctum believes that Shioda is currently one of the most promising photographers around and that he will continue produce important work. This exhibition is presenting his newest works, featuring portraits (...)
Tokyo Photo Collage Association 1st Anniversary Exhibition "Naked"
[0] [1]- Media: Photography - Art Talk
- 2007-01-15 - 2007-01-21
The Tokyo Photo Collage Association was formed in December 2005 as a group that aims to convey the sense of fun in photo collages to ordinary people. They do not use computers to produce their work, but (...)
Mariko Ohya "My Eyes"
[0] [2]- Media: Photography
- 2006-12-18 - 2006-12-24
Ohya is currently a PhD student at the Fine Arts Department of Nihon University, and she continues to make photographic work. This exhibition presents her most representative photographs depicting window (...)
Yosuke Owashi ”The Accidental Seeding”
[0] [1]- Media: Photography
- 2006-12-11 - 2006-12-17
Having started out as an independent photographer this summer, Owashi takes his camera with him wherever he goes. He documents the unexpected encounters he has and scenes that catch his attention and provoke (...)
Group Exhibition "Best Works 2006"
[0] [1]- Media: Photography
- 2006-11-27 - 2006-12-10
This group exhibition presents photographs submitted in response to a call for works made to this year's theme. This exhibition brings together works that the photographers have deemed to be the "best" (...)
Takashi Obata "Over Lap"
[0] [1]- Media: Photography
- 2006-11-13 - 2006-11-26
Following a period of working as an independent music and advertising photographer, Takashi Obata presently work solely as an artist. He deliberately takes unfocused photographs as to him it represents (...)
Kentaro Tomozawa "New Paintings"
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2006-10-30 - 2006-11-12
While working on the one hand as an illustrator, Tomozawa has experimented with and exhibited a variety of genres: mainly painting, but also textiles, photography and poetry. In 2003 he received a newcomers (...)
Taisuke Koyama "On the Other Side"
[0] [2]- Media: Photography
- 2006-10-16 - 2006-10-29
Koyama is a promising young artist who in recent years has been working very actively. His photography moves from town to town, street to street, exploring fleeting moments and lingering traces both on (...)
Masao Suzuki Exhibition
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- 2006-10-09 - 2006-10-12
Yuko Aoyama "Happy Hands"
[0] [3]- Media: Photography
- 2006-10-02 - 2006-10-08
Kaori Miyagawa "Strings of Sleep"
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2006-09-18 - 2006-10-01
Having held his second exhibition at Punctum last year, Miyagawa is exhibiting photographs based on the theme of "waking from sleep". "Strings of Sleep" are the various thoughts which have come to Miyagawa's (...)
Kenta Ishizuka "the-r-moo"
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2006-09-04 - 2006-09-17
Kenta Ishizuka became interested in photography after going to the USA. Recently, he started creating works using a thermography camera, and this exhibition features thermographic photos of people.
Group Exhibition "Portraits"
[0] [1]- Media: Photography
- 2006-08-01 - 2006-08-13
Taking "portraits" as its theme, this exhibition brings together the work of diverse photographers who work in a number of styles.
Eiki Mori "A Perfect Morning"
[0] [1]- Media: Photography - Art Talk
- 2006-07-18 - 2006-07-30
Mori encountered photography while he was studying design, and with the intention of becoming a photographer he moved to New York and started working there. His photographs are sensitive, personal portraits (...)
Akiyoshi Umetsu "Day and Night of Unnamed"
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- 2006-07-11 - 2006-07-16
Umetsu carries a camera with him when he heads home after work or on his days off, photographing whatever takes his fancy. He believes that the act of taking photographs and printing them is the single (...)
2nd Geki Photography Group Exhibition
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- 2006-07-04 - 2006-07-09
The "Geki Photography Group" was formed in 2002 out of volunteer university students in the Kansai area, and disbanded in 2004. Members of the group took on various roles and produced collaborative works (...)
Yayoi Aritomo "Magical Transit Days"
[0] [2]- Media: Photography
- 2006-06-13 - 2006-07-02
To celebrate the 2nd anniversary of Punctum's opening, the gallery is holding an exhibition of up-and-coming photographer Yayoi Arimoto. Having held her exhibition "Trans-port" at the gallery immediately (...)
Hayato Wakabayashi "The Lakeside"
[0] [1]- Media: Photography
- 2006-05-23 - 2006-06-04
Wakabayashi, an advertising agency employee, and a photographer is showing his work for the first time in the past five years. The themes are "leisure" and "excursions". These works, which preserve a certain (...)
Arata Matsuda "Along the River"
[0] [1]- Media: Photography
- 2006-05-09 - 2006-05-14
Matsuda photographs the Tone River on the edge of Chiba Prefecture, as the geographical meeting point between man and nature, in between the suburbs and the provinces. Both cool and warm, his black and (...)
Yukari Ojima "This Bedbug"
[0] [2]- Media: Photography - Art Talk
- 2006-04-25 - 2006-05-07
Based in Kanazawa and Tokyo, Ono makes works with objects and photography. Circumstances made her leave Tokyo and return to her hometown of Kanazawa, where she started to take photographs. However, she (...)
Ayaki Hosaka "The Mad Season and the Bald Ape"
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2006-04-18 - 2006-04-23
Hosaka started taking photographs while at school. It was that starting point which enticed him into the world of photographic expression and made him decide to become a photographer. Hosaka takes photographs (...)
Nobuyuki Shirai "Shun Fuu Ka"
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2006-04-11 - 2006-04-16
This is a photo exhibition themed around spring, the photographer's favourite season, and the work presented here has been shot walking around Shounan Beach and Enoshima during springtime. Shirai, who (...)
Kenichi Obana "Black Forest"
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2006-03-28 - 2006-04-09
Obana is a young artist who explores the possibilities of painting expressing the awkwardness of human personality. By using different types of medium on the canvas, he makes works from which one can (...)
At First Sight - Part 2: Masahito Mori "People like Huckleberry Finn"
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Other
- 2006-03-14 - 2006-03-26
Organised by Punctum, the "At First Sight" series is a project which through solo exhibitions aims to introduce the work of students graduating this spring. The aim of the exhibition is to formally introduce (...)
At First Sight - Part 1: Yoshihisa Yoshida "Kishimi"
[0] [1]- Media: Photography
- 2006-02-28 - 2006-03-12
Organised by Punctum, the "At First Sight" series is a project which through solo exhibitions aims to introduce the work of students graduating this spring. The aim of the exhibition is to formally introduce (...)
Akemigoto "Sweet Blues"
[0] [3]- Media: Photography
- 2006-02-14 - 2006-02-26
"Sweet Blues" is Akemigoto's collection of everyday memories, sweet and melancholic snapshots all taken with the small Olympus Pen camera.
Tokyo Photo Collage Association "Bigbang! Mini!"
[0] [1]- Media: Illustration - Photography - Art Talk
- 2006-01-20 - 2006-02-04
Unlike most collage artists these days, the members of the Tokyo Photo Collage Association still use scissors and glue for their productions, which, some say, is part of what confers them a special charm. In (...)
Yuki Aoyama - Jump Expo 2005
[0] [1]- Media: Photography
- 2005-12-13 - 2005-12-25
Yuki Aoyama suddenly decided to become a photographer on a trip to get to know himself better. One day, to deepen the communication between himself and the people he was taking portraits of, he began to (...)
Kahori Miyagawa "Old Lady's House"
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2005-11-29 - 2005-12-11
Kaori Miyagawa got her inspiration during a long-awaited visit to her great aunt. She started taking pictures of her and her house. Suffering from dementia, the concept of time and the stream of memory (...)
The Book Covers
[0] [0]- Media: Graphics - Illustration - Painting - Photography
- 2005-11-15 - 2005-11-27
If your art work was to be used as a book cover, whose book and what kind of book would it be? A fiction book? The collection of your works? Make your one and only book by putting your work on a blank (...)
The Last Scenes
[0] [3]- Media: Photography
- 2005-11-01 - 2005-11-13
After "Portraits" its first thematic group exhibition held in March 2005, Punctum presents "The Last Scenes", featuring works by seven photographers under the theme of the last scenes, the last image one (...)
Kazuto Imura "Individual 2.0"
[0] [3]- Media: Photography
- 2005-10-25 - 2005-10-30
For Imura, the act of photography is tantamount to creating a copy of the world. This exhibition, featuring 10 of his color photographs, invites the viewer to visit these clone worlds he has created.
Tomomitsu Katsumata "200510"
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2005-10-18 - 2005-10-23
Katsumata has worked as a graphic designer and art director since his graduation. In 2001, he restarted his own activity as an artist and has benn producing new artworks since. This exhibition features (...)
Chihiro Mochizuki "A Cast of Skin"
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2005-10-11 - 2005-10-16
"Inside the finder, there are nothing but lies." These words, once uttered by a certain movie director, were to become the starting point of Chihiro Mochizuki's career as a photographer. After some time (...)
Yukiko Kataoka - Observed Contradictions
[0] [2]- Media: Photography
- 2005-10-04 - 2005-10-09
Yukiko Kataoka started taking pictures as a means of documenting possible material and references for her drawings and paintings. It was then that she became aware of photography's distinctive qualities. (...)
Kohichi Ando - One Day
[0] [1]- Media: Photography
- 2005-09-16 - 2005-10-01
This is an exhibition of private photographs of domestic trips by travel writer Kohichi Ando. Each photograph tells of a story that might have otherwise gone unnoticed.
Kuroudo Kohda - 10th
[0] [1]- Media: Photography
- 2005-08-30 - 2005-09-09
Kuroudo Kohda runs a family business while also working as a photographer. For ten years, Kohda has been carrying around the camera that his grandfather left him, taking pictures of places that held special (...)
Kazuhiko Ueda
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2005-08-05 - 2005-08-14
Punctum presents paintings by Kazuhiko Ueda. Up until now, Ueda has mainly exhibited his works at group or public participation events. For this first individual show, he has painted new work, which embodies (...)
Hiromi Nakajima "Hemlock"
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2005-07-19 - 2005-07-31
With Nakajima Hiromi's "Hemlock", Punctum Gallery is presenting a painting exhibition for the first time in its relatively young history. Nakajima, who was awarded the Chikuba University Art Department's (...)
Ai Miwa "unreleased #1: Polaroid"
[0] [1]- Media: Photography
- 2005-07-08 - 2005-07-17
Ai Miwa started photography avidly in 2003. Polaroid pictures have been a fixation since her childhood and this exhibition will be an opportunity to see her works in this medium.
Yasu Suzuka "Between Heaven and Earth"
[0] [2]- Media: Photography - Sculpture - Installation
- 2005-06-21 - 2005-07-03
An exhibition of Yasu Suzuka, who received the Grand Prize at the Rencontres d'Arles last year. This show will feature 30 pieces of his work made using polaroids taken in Mexico and India.
Hideyuki Ishida "Missing Cuts - Imagination Odyssey" Art Talk
[0] [0]- Media: Photography - Art Talk
- 2005-05-28 - 2005-05-28
Exhibition talk featuring the photographer and Punctum producer Shigeo Goto.
Hideyuki Ishida "Missing Cuts - Imagination Odyssey"
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2005-05-24 - 2005-05-29
Since 2000, Ishida has been devoted to capturing "missing cuts" or recreating lost landscapes. Recently, he has rediscovered the joys of creation with a friend's camera and has since quit his full time (...)
4 Directions #2 Art Talk
[0] [0]- Media: Photography - Art Talk
- 2005-04-24 - 2005-04-24
"4 Directions" is a periodic exhibition showcasing young Japanese photographers who exhibit great potential. This is the second in the series, and features work by Miho Egami, Yuko Okoso, Miho Odaka, and (...)
4 Directions #2
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2005-04-19 - 2005-05-01
"4 Directions" is a periodic exhibition showcasing young Japanese photographers who exhibit great potential. This is the second in the series, and features work by Miho Egami, Yuko Okoso, Miho Odaka, and (...)
Junko Kato "I"
[0] [1]- Media: Photography
- 2005-04-05 - 2005-04-17
An exhibition marking the publication of Junko Kato's new book, "I". Kato moved to Okinawa in 2003 and has been active as a writer and a photographer. The book and exhibition features photographs taken (...)
1st Theme-Programmed Photo Exhibition "Portraits"
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2005-03-08 - 2005-03-17
Punctum's first thematic exhibition composed of works based on submissions. The theme of this exhibition is "portraits". It is believed that communicating with the subject is a very significant part (...)
Satoshi Inoue Photo Exhibition "Roundabout Trip"
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2005-02-11 - 2005-02-27
A collection of newly printed black and white photographs by Satoshi Inoue taken on his trip to India in 1983.
Ecstatic Piece
