Nikon Plaza Shinjuku The Gallery 1, 2 - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Nikon Plaza Shinjuku The Gallery 1, 2. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Nikkor Club Otsuka Branch Exhibition
Photographs of scenes in front of train stations. More »
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Yuko Kotaki “Gossamer”
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Eight Newcomers from Nihon University Department of Photography
Featuring the portfolios of outstanding students at Nihon Art University working in studio and snapshot photography. More »
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Terumitsu Koshimizu Exhibition
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Mitsuhiko Imamori “Aurelian Garden”
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Mariko Ito “Powerful Shotengai – My Favorite Shopping Arcades”
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FINA World Swimming Championships
Three top sports photographers present images from the 2019 FINA World Swimming Championships in Gwangju, South Korea.More »
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Yukitaka Ueda Exhibition
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Go Yamagata “Safari”
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Jun Miki “Happy Shooting Every Day of Your Life!”
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Jun Miki, who became the first official Japanese staff member of Time Life, flourishing in his career as an international photojournalist. Miki is...More »
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The All-Japan Association of Photographic Societies Exhibition 2019
This photo contest for adults and high school students features outstanding single works seeking out a personal sense of the contemporary age, from everyday living to politics and economics. This is the...More »
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Hamayo Kawai “I’m Willie”
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Tetsuya Sato “Coal Mine Barber Shop”
The Gallery Shinjuku 2More »
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Fumio Takado “Beech Forest in Summer – Kita Shinano, Nagano”
Location: The Gallery Shinjuku 2More »
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43rd All-Japan High School Culture Festival Best in Show Photography Exhibition
This photo exhibit showcases award-winning work from the 43rd All-Japan High School Culture Festival in the Photography category. Five to ten photographs were selected from every prefecture in the country...More »
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Tsuneo Enari “Hibaku (Atom Bombs): Hiroshima and Nagasaki”
[Events] Talks by Tsuneo Enari Dates: July 27 (Sat) 14:00, August 29 (Thurs) 15:00 Talk by Tsuneo Inari and Kumiko Kakehasi Date: August 3 (Sat) 14:00 In Japanese. Please see the official website...More »
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Noriko Yamaguchi Exhibition
Venue: The Gallery Shinjuku 1, 2More »
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Nikkor Club Matsudo Branch
Photographs of the Eastern Katsushika area in the four seasons.More »
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Akihiro Hayashi “Reincarnation”
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Nikkor Club Shizuoka Branch Exhibition
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Junji Takasago “Planet of Water”
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Holy Land of Ancient Civilization Pakistan
These images by 16 photographs demonstrate the vibrant culture and rich natural environment of the South Asian nation of Pakistan. Venue: The Gallery Shinjuku 1More »
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Teruo Ogawa “Expo ‘70 – The Endurance and Efforts of Humanity”
Venue: The Gallery Shinjuku 2More »
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Keizo Kitajima “Untitled Records 2018”
The internationally active Keizo Kitajima made his debut in 1975. This important Japanese photographer is known for high-contrast snapshots in black and white from his early years and later his photo collection...More »
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Ai Iwane “Kipuka”
Ai Iwane received this year’s Kihei Imura Prize for her photo book “Kipuka” and her Kanzan Gallery exhibition “Fukushima Ondo” focusing Nikkei culture in Hawaii and ties between Hawaii and Fukushima.More »
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Satoshi Takahashi “Resistance: Hopes of Unsurrendered Cambodia”
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Mitsugu Onishi “City Lights”
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Photo City Sagamihara 2018 Professional Awards
Exhibiting the work of four winners.More »
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2018 Japan Camera Photo Contest
Exhibiting winning works the categories of “black and white prints,” “color prints,” “beginners,” “internet,” and “students.” These photographs were selected from more than 53,000 submissions. More »
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Naoko Hirano “Grinning in the Streets”
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Seven Newcomers from the Nihon University Photography Department
Exhibiting work by seven promising students.More »
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Tri-National High School Photography Contest
Presenting 55 selected works and 15 winners from Nikon’s seventh photography contest for students at high schools in Japan, Korea, and China. More »
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Itaru Hirama Photo Exhibition
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Koji Ueda “The Contrast – Hong Kong Illuminations Story”
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Kawori Inbe Exhibition
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Lyu Hanabusa “Seeking Le Corbusier”
A photography exhibition exploring the mysteries of the French architect Le Corbusier.More »
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Norio Matsumoto “Alaska Days”
Venue: The Gallery Shinjuku 2 [Related Event] Norio Matsumoto Talk Event Date and Time: 10/6 (Sat) 14:00- Venue: The Gallery Shinjuku 2 *Please visit official website for more information.More »
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Aya Fujioka “Life Studies”
The shots in “Life Studies” were taken over a five-year period from 2007 during Aya Fujioka’s visits to New York. Venue: The Gallery Shinjuku 1 [Related Event] Chihiro Minato x Aya Fujioka Talk...More »
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Ocean and Forests - Henoko
This photo exhibit focuses its spotlight on the forests and ocean and the wildlife that lives in the rivers and the tidal flats of Yanbaru. Over 5000 species of wildlife live in the coral reefs that have...More »
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Masahisa Yokono “Kumano, A Chance Meeting”
Kumano has been famously described as an undeveloped land of lush, dense forest. Photographer Masahisa Yokono has visited Kumano consistently for the past 30 years, capturing the as yet, untouched landscape...More »
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42nd All-Japan High School Culture Festival Best in Show Photography Exhibition
This photo exhibit showcases award-winning work from the 42nd All-Japan High School Culture Festival Nagano in the Photography category. Five to ten photographs were selected from every prefecture in the...More »
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Isao Yoshida “The Only Graduate”
Including the local school, there are 19 radiation measuring devices throughout Soma. Even before the Fukushima accident the area of Tamano had the highest amount of radiation pollution. Since the accident,...More »
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Seiichi Kato “Thank You, Cha-chan”
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Daisuke Kumagiri “Moments in Tokyo”
Tokyo is undergoing drastic change in the lead up to the 2020 Olympics. Daisuke Kumakiri’s mission is to leave a photographic record of that change. However, it is not enough to simply record that change...More »
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Kazuyoshi Miyoshi “Dazzling India - Time of the Maharaja”
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Daijiro Goto “Breath”
Daijiro Goto presents photographs shot in the Ohmine Mountains in Nara Prefecture. He walked deep into the mountains on an aesthetic pilgrimage, a quest for repentance and purification of the roots of...More »
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Kumiko Strahan
Photographs by Kumiko Strahan.More »
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Asian Photographers 2017 - Cambodia
This exhibition will present work by six photographers across three galleries. Their work expresses the lives of Cambodian people and the sensibilities of the young, which differ dramatically from prolific...More »
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Panda Kanno “Planet Fukushima”
Since the Great East Japan Earthquake and nuclear plant accident, the work of Fukushima-born photographer Panda Kanno has reflected an altered sense of time: For some it has spend up, for others it has...More »
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Haruka Akagi “Love Letter”
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Graduation Works From Eight Photography School 2017, Vol. 2
Shinjuku Nikon Salon and Nikon Salon bis Shinjuku present works from graduates of photography departments at eight universities. More »
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Atsushi Fujimoto “The Curtain Call”
A series of 50 color photos reflect Atsushi Fujimoto’s exploration of his own being and the death faced around him. [Related Event] Gallery Talk Date: September 3(Sat) 12:30-13:30 Speaker: Atsushi...More »
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Shingo Kanagawa “father 2009.09-“
Shingo Kanagawa presents a photographic series on his father, a man with a history of bankruptcy and running off. More »
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Yasufumi Suzuki “Photosynthesis”
When the sun shines the gallery becomes suddenly warmer, rays of light collect and promote growth. Surrounded by the artificial environment of man-made architecture one may discover an array of plants....More »
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Kenta Sujio ”Changchun 2006-2015”
First encountering the Chinese town of Changchun, in former Manchuria, 10 years ago, Kenta Sujino confronted a city which had been shaped by war and colonialism and with many areas fast approaching destruction...More »
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Masayuki Miyashita “Note of the way”
Having retired from a Kansai broadcast company 5 years ago Masayuki Miyashita replaced his video camera for a stills camera. In this exhibition he presents 50 black and white photographs which observe...More »
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Yasuyuki Hiraki “Night Bug”
As Yasuyuki Hiraki persisted in taking thousands of photographs in the nightscape he became a night bug and whilst taking photos without any particular purpose came to be aware of the presence of other...More »
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Takeshi Morita “More Kinokuni”
In a follow up to 2014’s “Kinokuni”, Takeshi Morita presents his ongoing photographic journey. [Related Event] Gallery Talk Date: July 2(Sat)12:30-13:30 Speaker: Takeshi MoritaMore »
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Asian Photographers 2016, Mongolia
Featuring four young Mongolian photographers amongst 17 Asian practitioners as part of Tokyo Photography Month.More »
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Shomei Tomatsu “The Island Where Light Comes From”
Displaying more than 100 original color prints by Shomei Tomatsu discovered on Miyakojima, an island of great significance to the photographer. First presented in Tokyo a quarter century ago, these images...More »
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Motohumi Ishihara Exhibition
Photographs by Motohumi Ishihara of people praying on a special day of wishes at Daiun TempleMore »
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Daisuke Yokoyama “I Can’t Do Without You”
Daisuke Yokoyama, a stutter who sometimes struggles to express himself, uses his camera to present his perspectives and communicate. Even then, however, he is not always perfectly understood.More »
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Kengo Noguchi “Family Affair”
Family photographs from a village in Nepal near the epicenter of the April 2015 earthquake, as well as pictures of the owners of an inn in the ancient city and World Heritage site of Bhaktapur. [Related...More »
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Sho Kosuda “Tokyo Riverbed”
Photographs of Arakawa river and Tamagawa river which encircle the city of Tokyo. [Related Event] Gallery Talk Date: January 30(Sat) 12:30-13:30More »
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Kentaro Nakanishi
Forty-five black and white photographs by Kentaro Nakanishi. More »
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Rika Sakurai “The Album Around a Bank”
This series started as a way for Rika Sakurai to share happenings along the Tama River near where she lives on Facebook. Her records of shore-side community activities and events, disasters, construction,...More »
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Akira Otsubo “Shadow in the House #01/#02”
Akira Otsubo’s “Shadow in the House” series photographs the interiors of homes with complex histories. These works focus on two houses, one in Prague and one in the Nara Prefecture town of Yamatokoriyama....More »
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Tatsuya Shimohira “In Time”
A selection of forty black and white prints. More »
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Emi Nakata “Remembrances”
Twenty color photographs of clothing and other possessions that belonged to the artist’s late mother, as well as pictures of her in these clothes taken by her father. [Related Event] Gallery Talk Date:...More »
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Akira Otsubo “Shadow in the House #01/#02”
Akira Otsubo explores the complex layers of history which entwine architectural structures and their vestiges of memory, focusing her lens upon two contrasting houses, one set in Prague, Czech Republic...More »
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The Seto Family -Bangkok, Hanoi, Fukushima
The family home of Masato Seto was abound with photo albums as a result of his father running a photo store. A selection of these domestic scenes have been scanned and enlarged to encapsulate a concrete...More »
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Hiroshi Oshima “Sanhei”
A selection of 40 color photographic prints trace 4 years of the Sanhei district of Iwate, on the Sanriku coast, as it confronted disaster and worked towards recovery.More »
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Hiroyoshi Yamazaki “Diary- Portraits of Mother and Garden”
Inexplicably drawn to the lives of plants while caring for his aging mother, Hiroyoshi Yamazaki began photographing a corner of the garden after taking her picture. These images of his mother facing death...More »
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Akihiro Saito Exhibition
The reasons for climbing mountains are as many as the people who climb them. For the artist himself he climbs mountains seeking the space of floating distance. In a world overflowing with information and...More »
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Makoto Shina Exhibition
Makoto Shina reflects upon the eternal presence of the sky and the ever changing clouds which voyage across its paths. With the eye always drawn to above, no matter what the time of day, Shina considers...More »
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Saori Baba “2.7% - My Confrontation with Juevnile Breast Cancer”
In January 2013 Saori Baba was diagnosed with juvenile breast cancer, a condition which makes up only 2.7% of all cancer sufferers and the chances of survival being significantly less. On learning this...More »
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Kuniko Kato “The Shrine Grove”
Captivated by the unexpected beauty of a grove in a remote Shiga Prefecture village, Kuniko Kato has been visiting a Shinto shrine there for eight years. These 46 black and white photographs reflect her...More »
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Nippon Camera Photo Contest 2014
This ongoing photography contest has continued under the umbrella of the photography magazine “Nippon Camera”, first established in 1950 and this year has attracted 66000 entries across 4 categories from...More »
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Kisara-Okada “ⓒTokyo ‘Tendosetsu’”
Today we face issues including the State Secrets Law, suppression of the freedom of expression, and fears about violations of privacy and portrait rights in the internet age. Artists and photographers...More »
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The 14th Photo City Sagamihara 2014 Professional Division: Winning Works
Photo City Sagamihara was first established in 2001 as a platform through which to shine a torch upon the rich cultural and intellectual life of Sagamihara and link this to the world. This exhibition features...More »
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Junpei Seto “Communication”
Junpei Seto wonders the streets approaching people by a sense of instinct and requesting to photograph them. With the only instruction of “stare at the lens” he forms a communication between subject and...More »
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Shigeru Mochizuki “A Statue of Buddha in the Fields”
Traveling across the country in search Buddhist statues Shigeru Mochizuki has captured the weathered beauty of outdoor sculptors, set quietly within the natural landscapes of Japan.More »
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The 62nd Nikkor Photo Contest: 2nd and 3rd Division Winning Works
Presenting the winning works of the 62nd Nikkor Photo Contest, a competition that started with the founding of the Nikkor Photo Club 62 years ago. This competition aims to “open the door to photography...More »
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Brilliant Monochrome— Life in the Third Decade of Showa
At the age of 60, Toshie Saito rediscovered photographs she believed her father had thrown away while she was in her 20s. Saito, who aspired to be a photographer since childhood, was unaware her father...More »
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Arron Hsiao “Train Project -Taiwan”
Arron Hsiao attempts to pin down the individual at their most vulnerable state within the crowd, taking up a position in railway stations and level crossings to take a snap shot of individual passengers...More »
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Satoru Ikegami “The Mountain Before Our Eyes”
Satoru Ikegami presents an exhibition of 45 intricate color photographs trailing his course through the mountainscape. More »
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Osamu Kanamura “Ansel Adams Stardust (You are Not Alone)”
In an age where we all have the ability to thoughtlessly photograph that which is before us, where does the will of photography lie? Osamu Kanamura raises uneasy questions in a multilayered documentary...More »
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Yoshihiko Saito “Milestones”
Yoshihiko Saito continues his observations of place through the lens of the camera in an ongoing confirmation of where he is.More »
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Tadahito Tatsumi “Inside/Outside”
In the course of the day, at dawn and dusk for just a fraction of time the light within a tunnel and that without become balanced and create a space of continuity between interior and exterior. Tadahito...More »
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Kei Orihara “The Garden”
Photographs taken in the American city of Athens, Georgia, a college town with streets lined with beautiful southern-style wooden houses reminiscent of a kind of classical western architecture now rarely...More »
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Riko Kawai “Shadow and Shine”
[Related Event] Gallery Talk November 1st (Sat) 13:00-13:30 More »
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Tadatomo Takagi “Dusty Shine”
A series of 40 color photographs trace the lives of those who live on the streets of Africa. More »
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Takehito Ashizawa “Tableau of Acrobatics”
Forty photographs of a family of circus performers.More »
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Yuki Abe “New Home”
A series of 30 color photographic prints.More »
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The All-Japan Association of Photographic Societies Exhibition
Now in its 42nd volume the All-Japan Association of Photographic Societies 2014 Exhibition brings together 157 noted works from its open call, featuring works seeking out a personal sense of the contemporary...More »
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Takahisa Inoue “Everyday Perception”
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Hitomi Watanabe “1968 Shinjuku”
An exhibition of 45 black and white prints.More »
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Kiyotaka Yaguchi “Paipateroma”
A collection of 40 color prints.More »
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Takuhiro Arakawa “Shin-on”
40 black and white photographs. More »
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Eiji Ohashi “Roadside Lights II”
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Kanki Kumano “A Fragment of the Earth”
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Kazutoshi Miyoshi Exhibition
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Keichi Takada Exhibition
An exhibition of 70 black and white photographs reflecting the thoughts and dreams of students.More »
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Asian Photographers 2014 Myanmar
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Takahiro Yamashita “Heat of the Mind”
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Mayumi Yamamoto “The People of the Wind”
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Hiroshi Asai Exhibition
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Toru Komatsu Exhibition
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Association Japonaise de la Press Sportive Exhibition
Also being held across Nikon Salon Bis Shinjuku.More »
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Satoru Ikegami Exhibition
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Masami Goto Exhibition
Displaying 40 black and white photographs by Masami Goto.More »
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Satoru Yoshioka “Why Do We Exist? Visual Study of High Energy Physics/CERN”
In 2007, artist Satoru Yoshioka donned a gas mask and helmet and rode an air-pressure-controlled emergency elevator in Switzerland 100 meters under the earth to see a laboratory 27 kilometers in circumference...More »
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“Nippon Camera Photo Contest 2013”
With over a 60 year history this competition has been running since 1950 as part of the activities of photography magazine “Nippon Camera”. This year has seen over 80,000 submissions across the four sections...More »
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Junya Ono “His Responses Will Stain the Rest of His Days”
A collection of 30 color photographs of the artist’s grandfather. [Related Event] Gallery Talk Date: 22nd February(Sat) 13:00-14:00More »
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“Photo City Sagamihara 2013 Professional Division: Winning Works”
This year the “Sagamihara Award” goes to Rieko Shiga for her series “Rasen Kaigan”, capturing the surrealism of the unimaginable disaster of the Great East Japan Earthquake as one directly affected by...More »
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“Sweet Melancholy”
30 color photographs depicting afternoon showers, the blue of dawn and hotel rooms. [Related Event] Gallery Talk Date: 1st February(Sat) 13:00-14:00More »
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Eimu Arino “A Negative Landscape— Broken Stone Place”
Around 40 color photographs of stone quarries, mainly in Tuscany, Italy. Stone quarries are terrains such as mountains and plains that have been transformed through artificial means. Forming as they decline...More »
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The 61st Nikkor Photo Contest: Winning Works 2nd Division: Color/3rd Division: Nature
In the 61st Nikkor Photo Contest held this year over 47000 works were submitted over 4 different sections, from which just over 200 works have been selected for an award, with award winners from the “Color”...More »
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Nana Kakuda “Bitter Mango - Touching Vietnam”
A series of 40 color photographs trace Nana Kakuda’s encounter with the land of Vietnam and the everyday lives of its people. [Related Event] Gallery Talk Date: 21st December(Sat) 13:00-14:00More »
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Kaori Fujiwara “Hologram”
Kaori Fujiwara is an artist who consciously attempts to break the rules with a bold, almost wild expression which disregards the usual principles of photography in a seemingly unpolished use of color and...More »
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Kogoro Suzuki “Mines, Plantation, and Factory”
Resembling the works of August Sander, these 40 color photographs of mines, factories, and recycling manufacturer sites in Africa and Asia are beautiful in the way they compile a factual record of the...More »
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Kazutoshi Yoshimura “Custom Doctor in the Solomon Islands”
Upon the tropical rainforest filled, coral reef engulfed Solomon Islands each village has its very own “Custom Doctor”, keepers of ancestral heritage of the native islanders. However with the development...More »
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Tamami Terasaki “Rheological Landscapes”
Tamami Terasaki spent roughly two years photographing a lake created by the construction of the Miyagse Dam in Kanagawa Prefecture and its surrounding area. The Miyagase Dam and its nearby facilities have...More »
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Anat Parnass “Stillness of Night”
Reflecting on the dream like atmosphere of the night air and its unique luminosity in a series of 40 photographs taken over the last 7 years.More »
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Kaori Inbe “I will go back to the moon, after all”
After being propositioned by a woman asking “I’m planning to end it soon, so will you take some pictures for me?” the artist began to take a series of portraits at her home, where already the clothes and...More »
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Toshio Goto “Traces of the Frontier Spirit”
After the war Japan was hit by a severe food shortage at a time when over 6.5 million soldiers and civilians were returning to their homeland, and cities filled with the unemployed and victims of war....More »
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Joji Okamoto “Paris 2012-2013”
Capturing the charm and resonance of one of the world’s greatest cities, Paris, in a series of 40 monochorome photographs taken over 1 year between March 2012-March 2013, from its streets and cafes to...More »
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Noriko Hayashi “Unholy Matrimony in Kyrgyzstan”
In the small central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan, 40% of women who are married, were originally kidnapped and forced to marry. 85% of all women kidnapped for such purpose will eventually give in to their...More »
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The All-Japan Association of Photographic Societies 2013 Exhibition
The theme of this year’s contest for amateur photographers and high school students is “capturing the present from your own perspective.” The winning photographs portray everything from human relations...More »
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Kai Keijiro “Shrove Tuesday”
The 30 color photographs on display have a riotous yet incomprehensible sense of urgency, revealing the fierceness of men forced into action and the nature of human beings. More »
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Gou Terakado “Room and Photography”
This exhibition presents a hypothesis about the nature of existence and awareness in photography. A photograph can only reflect a fragment of the world, but when combined these fragments can create new...More »
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Shuhei Aoki “forest park”
Shots of sunlight streaming through the branches of trees in Tokyo’s parks and other photographs focusing on nature. 28 color prints. [Related Event] Gallery Talk Date: 8/24 (Sat) 13:00-14:00More »
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Chieko Aoshima “Series: Shining Sounds VI New York, Rove
Chieko Aoshima has traveled across Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, Delhi, Rome, and now New York for her “Shining Sounds” series. These black and white photographs continue to explore the intersection of the...More »
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Makoto Ishida “Unknown Faces”
At the start of his career as a photographer Makoto Ishida realized he was surrounded by charming people perfect as his models, from artists, musicians, actors, doctors, students and housewives he has...More »
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Yugo Shimada “NYC/Yellow-Blue”
30 color photographs from Yugo Shimada. [Image: Yugo Shimada] [Related Event] Gallery Talk Date: 20th July(Sat) 13:00-14:00More »
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Hideki Onuma “Looking for the Light of Spring”
In an ongoing project Hideki Onuma continues to capture the somber yet beautiful flowering of the enduring cherry blossom fresh from the memory of 3.11. Since ancient times the Japanese have revered the...More »
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Yoshitaka Kurashige “A Sequel to “Days in my Hometown, Tochio””
In 2008 Yoshitaka Kurashige presented the exhibition “Days in my Hometown, Tochio”, with work which captured the district over a 40 year period, sparked by long days of confinement due to illness, steeped...More »
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Takuto Sera “Physis”
In the photographs of rivers captured by machine, there extends a landscape that even the artist himself has never seen. As the photographer shoots a scene, the captured image becomes a world completely...More »
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Jirou Nomura “Mountain Path”
Presenting a series of 15 monochrome photographs. [Image: Jirou Nomura]More »
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Nozomi Kosuda “Closed Square”
In recent urban redevelopment schemes which create a new area within urban space it has become increasingly common to include the “plaza” or “square” space as influenced by overseas style. What distinguishes...More »
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Katsutoshi Kobayashi “The 19th Sakata City Ken Domon Culture Award - Winning Works - Going upstream for Niyodo river -“
It may be said that now in Japan mountain village communities have largely disappeared, with human presence in these regions on the brink of extinction. Katsutoshi Kobayashi first visited to a mountain...More »
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Hideaki Uchiyama "Atom World"
50 color photographs depict the laboratories and research units associated with nuclear energy, with the aim of confronting the scenes of these closed fortresses, in a series of work developed since the...More »
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Kaori Yoshihara "Sayonara and Spices"
10 color photographs. Related Event: Gallery Talk Date: 4/27 (Sat) 13:00-14:00 [Image: Kaori Yoshihara]More »
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Tatsuya Hirabayashi "The spiritual mountain - Mt. Takao"
A series of 40 black and white photographs convey the hidden stories of the popular hiking spot of Mt. Takao and its spiritual history. [Image: Tatsuya Hirabayashi]More »
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Koyata Saito "Eternal Garden"
30 black and white photographs of Koyata Saito's travels in Southern India, focusing on a visit terminal care home. [Image: Koyata Saito] Related Event: Gallery Talk Date: 4/6 (Sat) 13:00-14:00...More »
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Sayuri Tajima Exhibition
Features portraits of Argentinians of Japanese descent. [Image: Sayuri Tajima]More »
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Touta Kikuchi "Cretaceous Sea 2"
Kikuchi has photographed American deserts in the past and this exhibition likewise feature Cretaceous period natural landscapes from the continent. [Image: Touta Kikuchi]More »
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2012 Japan Camera Photo Contest
This monthly photo contest has over sixty years of history, having been founded in 1950. This time there were over 80,000 entries across multiple categories.More »
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Kaori Hujiwara "Hologram"
Features photos of items that usually do not fit together, creating a new take on the world and its possibilities. [Image: Kaori Hujiwara]More »
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Photo City Sagamihara 2012 Pro Awards
Features the winning and commended entries from the recent photography contest. Subjects include post-3.11 Tohoku and Australia's Gold Coast. [Image: Keizo Kitajima]More »
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Akimichi Chimura "Shakai"
Documentary portraits of the things found on the sands of Kamisushi, Ibaraki, over the course of four years. [Image: Akimichi Chimura]More »
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Masahito Agake Exhibition
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60th Nikon Photo Contest Award Winning Works Exhibition
Works from the 60th edition of a contest that seeks to open doors to photo enthusiasts and encourage the development of the art form.More »
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Yamato Hozumi “Designes”
16 color photos taken in Fukushima that capture the strange beauty of environmental problems. [Image: Yamato Hozumi]More »
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Kiyoshi Nishioka Exhibition
Portraits of people, forests, coastlines throughout Japan. [Image: Kiyoshi Nishioka]More »
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Brian Y. Sato Exhibition
This exhibition showcases works that record the history and culture of 200 second-generation Japanese Hawaiians. [Image: Brian Y. Sato]More »
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Kie Kojima "Distant Thunder"
Black-and-white self portraits. [Image: Kie Kojima]More »
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Hiroyuki Otsuka “Hello World”
40 monochrome works that explore how photography is basically a fabrication of reality despite its claims towards transcendence and dream-like visions. [Image: Hiroyuki Otsuka]More »
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Tomoyuki Tsuchiya “Commonage”
Features portraits of 12 immigrant families from 12 countries in New York City. [Image: Tomoyuki Tsuchiya]More »
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Akihiko Ota Exhibition
30 color works depicting the residents of a once-flourishing town in Shimane Prefecture that now faces a depopulation problem. [Image: Akihiko Ota]More »
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Atsushi Yoshie "Regional City"
Features photography about regional life around Japan. [Image: Atsushi Yoshie]More »
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Yaichiro Togamoto Exhibition
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Yasuko Ishii "houses"
On display are 22 color photographs of suburban Saitama, located around an hour from central Tokyo.More »
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Kyoko Ioka Exhibition
Photography featuring people living in hutong.More »
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Alena Dvorakova + Viktor Fischer "Water"
42 monochrome shots of the theme of water and new connections.More »
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Miyuki Yasui Exhibition
On display are 30 color photos that capture both outer and inner movements of the self that emerge from visiting places with massive, expansive landscapes.More »
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All Japan Photography Exhibition 2012
40th installment of a photography exhibition that focuses on local customs, human labor, politics and economics.More »
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Kenji Kawano "Faces of the Navajo"
On display are black-and-white works taken in the foreign concessions of Havana. Gallery talk: August 1st (Wed) 18:30-20:00More »
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Garrett Hansen "Partner and Passage"
Features selection from a decade of photography from Hong Kong to rural Indiana, themed around "my partner" or "my passage".More »
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Lee Young Ha "3rd Generation"
The photographer took part in the Vietnam War in January 1972 and for this series he has returned to Hanoi and former Saigon to photograph the now elderly victims of Agent Orange.More »
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Ahn Sehong "Comfort Women in China"
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Kiyoshi Nishioka "Matomani"
On display are some 20 color photos that depict the gaps in between spaces, and which attempt to fill them through the act of photography. Gallery talk: June 23rd (Sat) 13:00-14:00More »
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Moyuru Tsurusaki Exhibition
Focuses on refugees from the Thailand-Myanmar border, living in Japan.More »
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Hiroshi Aoki "Arab Spring: The Libya Revolution"
On display are photos documenting the revolution in Libya that occurred on February 17, 2011.More »
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"The 18th Sakata City Ken Domon Culture Award - Winning Works" Exhibition
This exhibition showcases selected works from Giichi Takahashi's series depicting Ashikawa, an aging and depopulated rural town in Yamanashi where traditional customs still survive.More »
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Ryuichi Hirokawa "Afganistan - The war in the too long run"
On display are photos capturing the front line situation of American troops in Afghanistan, taken on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the bombing of Kabul.More »
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Keita Takino "Somalia - People living on the battlefield"
40 color photos that document the lives of people in Mogadishu, Somalia, a city wracked by war, famine and piracy.More »
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Junko Takahashi "Fade Out Changdian/Lost World"
This exhibition was first staged at the Three Shadows Photography Art Center in Beijing, where Takahashi spent 2010–2011 doing research. These photos depict the vanishing villages in the suburbs of Beijing,...More »
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Daisuke Nakagawa "Hotel Rycom"
Features 39 color photographs taken in a hotel room, focusing on the traces of a person's history left on their bodies, including injuries, "stretch marks" from pregnancy, wrinkles, tattoos and more.More »
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Koji Yoshida "Moon Town 2010-2011"
27 color photos that depict a labyrinthine town of narrow, sloping streets that was first settled in 1950 by rural Korean farmers who were refugees of the Korean war.More »
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Kiyotaka Shishido "Home"
30-40 works that depict dolls, haversacks and other personal effects strewn throughout the rubble left in the wake of the 3.11 disaster.More »
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Kazuhiko Washio "A Far Horizon"
On display are some 40 black and white photos that depict the ocean as a fund of shared memories with people around the world.More »
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Kazutomo Tashiro Exhibition
Features portraits of the people the photographer met in the areas affected by the March 11th disaster last year.More »
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Naoki Wada Exhibition
Features photographs documenting the destruction to the Sanriku coast following the tsunami on March 11th.More »
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Susumu Okada "A White Track"
17 black and white photos that document walls with countless ball marks. Gallery talk: February 5th (Sat) 13:00-14:00More »
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"2011 Nippon Camera Photo Contest" Exhibition
On display are original works in four categories selected by a panel of jurors.More »
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"Photo City Sagamihara 2011 Professional Category" Exhibition
Award-winning works from the 11th edition of this photography festival.More »
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Yuki Maruyama "Hikarino"
On display are works depicting curious luminous objects that appear by night in the artist's hometown. Gallery talk: January 28th (Sat) 13:00-14:00More »
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Yasuhiko Miyajima "Tokyo Gensis"
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"59th Nikkor Photo Contest Prize-Winners Exhibition"
Features the winners of the 59th Nikkor Photo Contest, selected from over forty-four thousand entries.More »
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Naoko Takahashi Exhibition
40 color photos documenting tending to animals over the winter on a farm.More »
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Toru Komatsu "nature morte - après 311"
The photographer has been attempting to capture the unseen relationship between people and trees. Since the March 11th disaster he has been travelling to the areas devastated by the tsunami to photograph...More »
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Takuya Fujiwara Exhibition
Features 13 color photos taken from the photographer's travels around sports facilities in different Asian countries, capturing moments of sports and daily activities.More »
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Yi Sangil Exhibition
Monochrome photographs looks at the 1980 Gwangju demonstrations and massacre as part of the struggle for democracy in South Korea.More »
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Michelle Given "Accommodations"
30 color photos that explore themes of identity, loneliness, expression, belonging and cruelty.More »
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Masato Moritani "Kawasaki Deep South 2010-2011"
On display are 40 black and white photos that depict public housing, dormitories and other urban infrastructural projects in southern Kawasaki, the industrial center of the Keihin conglomerate.More »
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Noriko Hayashi "Burnt by Sulfuric Acid: Women from Pakistan"
This exhibition showcases some 33 color photos that depict women from Pakistan who have had their faces disfigured by sulfuric acid as a result of domestic violence, or retributive acts of rage by scorned...More »
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Brian Y. Sato Exhibition
Features portraits of 200 Hawaiian "nisei", American Japanese born in America to Japanese parents. Taken over the space of nine years, it explores life on small islands, identity, discrimination, nostalgia...More »
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Hotsumi Ihara "Days in Snow"
On display are 48 black and white photos depicting the history of his own family.More »
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Yasuo Matsunami Exhibition
35 color photos depicting worshippers at an Islamic mosque in the Arsi region of Ethiopia. More »
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Yutaka Matsubara "Memories of Villages"
30 black and white photos that document the fates of nine villages that disappeared from the maps of Mie prefecture in the spring of 2006 as a result of a large scale program led by the central government...More »
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Atsuo Suzuki Exhibition
On display are some 40 black and white photos of the towering, ten-meter high props and braces of the No. 2 Tomei Yoshihara junction in Shizuoka.More »
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Satoh Uesaka "My Generation"
40 color photos that explore how photography captures a sense of the here and now. Gallery talk: August 27th (Sat) 13:00-14:00 More »
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Juichi Oguri "Howl of the Wind, Sound of the Waves"
On display are 45 black and white photos that cast an eye on the deep and sometimes burdensome history of Okinawa.More »
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All-Japan Community of Photographic Societies "All Japan Photographic Exhibition 2011"
Now in its 39th year, this exhibition features, under the theme of "All Japan 2011", photographs of the lifestyles and customs surrounding us, human life, and even politics and economics. There are contributions...More »
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Sawako Obara "Divine Courtyard"
Kudakajima is a narrow outlying island in Okinawa Prefecture that is said to be the birthplace of the Ryukyu dynasty. On display are 42 black and white photos that depict some of the most sacred sites...More »
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Mayumi Yamamoto "Wind Fossil"
40 color photographs depicting the life and people at Toji Temple, a famous Buddhist site in Kyoto originally founded 1,200 years ago.More »
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Keiichi Takada Exhibition
74 monochrome photos by a Tottori Prefecture teacher and his students.More »
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Hiroki Ando "Before Night Falls"
47 color photographs.More »
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Ryoichi Murakami "From the Ohiyori Biyori Series: People at The Beach"
50 black and white photos depicting scenes from early summer with sun, sky and sea.More »
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Naohiro Harada "Swimming Body"
Features 30 black and white snapshots of people met on the road of a black landscape.More »
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"The 17th Sakata City Ken Domon Culture Award-Winning Works" Exhibition
These works look at images captured in a variety of water scenes by Emi Ichikawa.More »
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Photographer Haru "Flesh Love"
16 color works examining love and entwined lovers.More »
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Naoka Watanabe "falling"
16 color photographs looking at strange objects that invade ordinary life.More »
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Jun Nakasuji "The Apocalypse Of Chernobyl: Spring Revitalized"
Around 40 color photographs of the landscape of Chernobyl, which seems to serve as a warning or requiem to us today, 25 years after the tragedy.More »
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Takuya Fujiwara "A Picture Scroll Of Sports" Exhibition
This exhibition features 13 color works displaying sports moments within the everyday.More »
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Osamu Nakamura "Home"
On display are 45 color photos that document the lives of the Hakka Chinese who continue to live in the "Hakka Tulou", a world heritage site boasting over 1700 years of history located in the mountainous...More »
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Miki Hirose "Requiem for the Great Tokyo Air Raid"
40 black and white photos.More »
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Dongjin Kim "Reconsidering the Landscape of Seoul"
This exhibition by Dongjin Kim features 40 color photos that depict the collision of new and old in the Korean capital of Seoul. These works attempt to reconsider the multi-layered landscape of the city...More »
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Tomoyuki Baba Exhibition
Tomoyuki Baba uses the animals and other living organisms in an aquarium as motifs that hint at the present situation and future direction of human beings. These 30 photos portray creatures that seem to...More »
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"2010 Japan Camera Photo Contest" Exhibition
Original works from each category of the contest are on display.More »
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"Photo City Sagamihara 2010 Professional Section Award Winning Works" Exhibition
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Yuya Furukawa "Landscape Illusion"
Gallery talk: January 29th (Sat) 13:00-14:00More »
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Shuhei Fujita "Roadside Traces"
45 black and white photos of stray dogs in Taiwan.More »
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mk "Bad Blood"
52 color and black and white works that portray the violent impulses that arise from feelings of helplessness and alienation. Gallery talk: December 25th (Sat) 13:00-14:00More »
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Hitoshi Fugo "On the Circle"
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Mutaro "The Long And Winding Road"
Photos about becoming an adult and the trials and tribulations of life.More »
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Cho Fuje "Phantom Labyrinth"
On display are 33 color photos depicting houses - the "social foundations that are visible to the naked eye". Gallery talk: November 27th (Sat) 13:00-14:00More »
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Kei Ono "Ultramarine"
On display are new works that follow from the "Blue Light" series by Kei Ono, a photographer who has been taking portraits of high school students all over Japan for almost 8 years.More »
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Hyunmin Ryu "Giggle"
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Issei Hattori Exhibition
60 color photos that depict the phenomenon of "kodokushi" - people who live alone and die without the support of family members.More »
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Akira Endo "Untitled"
On display are snapshots taken over 15 years since 1995. These fragments of daily life have been transformed into unique, one-off pieces through a little darkroom magic.More »
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Mayumi Teramoto Exhibition
Landscape photos of the American southwest. Gallery talk: October 2nd (Sat) 13:00-14:00More »
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Toshiharu Yamamoto "Children Living with HIV"
On display are photos depicting HIV-infected children in Kenya who have been struggling with the disease, as well as those who found the strength to overcome their adverse circumstances. More »
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Michio Washio "Homesickness Et Cetera"
46 black and white photos that emerged out of a compelling encounter with a man who longed to return home but could not, spending his last days in a tiny three tatami mat room.More »
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Ai Takahashi "Yama Mura Nora"
Located an hour from Matsuyama by car, Kumakogen in Ehime prefecture sits at the foot of Mount Ishizuchi, the tallest peak in western Japan. This exhibition features works that depict the stunning landscapes...More »
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Kei Kobayashi "Showa Memories of Sakura and Kawanakajima"
On display are 60 black and white photographs that depict daily scenes in the villages of Qingliu (formerly known as Kawanakajima) and Chunyang (formerly known as Sakura) that reveal the histories of the...More »
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All-Japan Community of Photographic Societies "All Japan Photographic Exhibition 2010"
The theme for this year's 38th "All Japan Photographic Exhibition 2010" is "capturing the current times with your unique sensitivity" and covers everything from everyday life, local culture and people's...More »
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Ayako Ohosa "Asian Personalities"
40 color photographs that depict how individuals dress themselves to suit the circumstances they find themselves in. Gallery talk: July 31st (Sat) 13:00-14:00More »
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Toshitsugu Yamaguchi "Fishes in the Pond"
33 black and white photos that capture the tranquil, somewhat childish landscapes of fish ponds.More »
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Sachiko Shimizu "Oma to Pu"
On display are photos taken near the home of the late Asako Kumagai, who lived in a house and field located near the core of a nuclear reactor in Oma, Aomori prefecture. The plan to build a nuclear reactor...More »
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Hikari Ogawara "Monuments"
Tokyo is home to several cemeteries overseen and managed by independent municipal bodies and temples. These cemeteries contain numerous tombstones that are monuments and memorials to the deceased. This...More »
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Bernard Languillier "Lights of Japan"
Bernard Languillier has been hiking around various mountains in Japan for 10 years, taking photos of these alpine landscapes as they change throughout the four seasons. On display at this exhibition are...More »
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Takahiro Yamashita Exhibition
Vidarbha, located on the Deccan Plateau in central India, has long been known as an important cotton-producing area. Recently, however, it has become infamous as the site of more than 1000 suicides every...More »
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"The 16th Sakai City Ken Domon Cultural Award- Yukio Misu" Exhibition
This exhibition features 30 black and white photos of cities in Kanagawa prefecture and its neighboring areas that were taken from 1990 to 2008. Captured in these photos are urban landscapes that have...More »
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Hiroyuki Kodama "Nihon Ryoiki"
On display are 41 color photos that seek to capture scenes from everyday life that give us a momentary glimpse at something extraordinary - something akin to the effect of stories from the oldest collection...More »
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Ryan Libre "Portraits of Independence: Inside the Kachin Independence Army"
Ryan Libre is an award-winning photojournalist who received a grant from the Pulitzer Center for his crisis reportage work. He has been based in Asia for 8 years, spending most summers in Hokkaido and...More »
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Takahisa Inoue "Whereabouts of Daily Life"
43 color photographs.More »
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Keiko Nagatomi "Starting Over"
Nagatomi spent close to three years documenting the lives of former NEETs and shut-ins who are current or former residents of a dormitory operated by the Chiba-based nonprofit organization New Start, which...More »
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Eisuke Shimauchi "Sepia Coloured Yoshino River"
Eisuke Shimauchi spent two years in 1958-9 documenting the landscapes of the great Yoshino river on the Ehime prefectural border, as well as the lives of the people who live there. 20 years later, Shimauchi...More »
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Reiko Shibata "Sakura - Foreign Women Who Married Japanese Men"
Portraits of foreign women who married Japanese men and lead forward-looking lives within Japanese society.More »
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Minoru Suwa Exhibition
70 color photographs. March 6th 14:00~ Portfolio Review EventMore »
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Shingo Kanagawa "Father"
40 color photos of the artist's father. Gallery talk: February 27th (Sat) 13:00-14:00 More »
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"2009 Nihon Camera Photo Competition" Exhibition
This contest is a regular monthly competition organized by Nihon Camera magazine, founded in 1950. Prizes are awarded in four categories: black-and-white prints, color slides, color prints and beginners,...More »
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"Photo City Sagamihara 2009 Prize-winning Work" Exhibition
Sagamihara City launched the "Photo City Sagamihara" photo festival in 2001 with the aim of promoting local photography and Sagamihara all over Japan and beyond. On view are prize-winning works from the...More »
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Nana Kakuda "Mother, 57 Years Old"
While Kakuda has always felt that she didn't want to be like her mother, she has also known that her mother was the closest person to her. These 30 color photographs on view are a record of her slowly...More »
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Joseph Maida "Dream Factory"
Showcasing 32 color photographs by Joseph Maida, who raises penetrating questions about our capitalistic world.More »
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"57th Nikkor Photo Contest" Exhibition
Nikkor Photo Contest aims for the development of photography as art, the improvement of photography technology, and communication through photography. On view at Nikon Salon Bis are prize-winning works...More »
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Naoki Abe Exhibition
On view are 30 black and white photographs that capture the photographer's own emotions emerging out as looking at sculptural forms created by shadow and afternoon light.More »
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Akikami Kanda Exhibition
Kanda was born in a quiet town in Gunma prefecture, which remained untouched by development for a long time. Although it was nothing more than an ordinary place, he never felt uncomfortable living there. When...More »
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Junichi Ota "My Dad's Diary"
On view are photographs of Ota's father's diary, which he started keeping after his wife's death and continued to write every single day for 20 years until he passed away at the age of 87. 2 years before...More »
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Toshiya Murakoshi Exhibition
A total of 30 black and white photographs whose landscapes Murakoshi tried to capture permanently on film, as if to fill the gap between the actual scenes and his fading memories of them. November 28th...More »
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Kengo Sato "Silent Fiction"
Sato inserted the element of water to ordinary urban scenery that we unconsciously yet constantly make contact with. The sudden appearance of aqueous surface brings to everyday landscapes a sort of apocalyptic...More »
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Nozomi Iijima Exhibition
Iijima grew up in a house surrounded by a cow shed and pig hut, always listening to the sound the cattle made and breathing in the smell of animal feed and manure. During her childhood, her elementary...More »
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Kyo Takahashi "Possession"
Takahashi loves to walk about with his camera, feeling the warm sunlight on his back. He enjoys the sensation of coming across something unknown to him. On view are a total of 50 black and white photographs...More »
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Yukikazu Nogawa "No Coming Home"
Nogawa says that whenever he leaves Japan and stays abroad for a certain period of time, his way of thinking changes. A lot of people nowadays might feel the same way. He describes such a phenomenon in...More »
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Takayuki Ono "Blue Portrait"
On view are a total of 45 color photographs by Takayuki Ono, who came face to face with his sitters in an effort to capture the meaning and beauty of their austere lives. October 3rd (Sat) 13:00-14:00...More »
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Norio Kobayashi "Out of Agharta"
Showcasing 35 color photographs shot all over Japan using Nikon single-lens digital cameras (D200, D3) from 2006 through to 2009 on the theme of "Out of Agharta". By identifying an invisible realm that...More »
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Yutaka Hirasawa + Paul van Riel "1969: Amsterdam and Tokyo"
1969. The year shortly after two young individuals picked up a camera for the first time. A boy in Tokyo had a Nikon F in his hand, while one in Amsterdam had a Rollei. Almost the same age, they lived...More »
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Koji Ishikawa "Ironic Scenes"
Crossing many national borders with a camera in his hand, Ishikawa realized how everything he encountered looked flimsy, spreading before his eyes as a homogeneously evened-out landscape. It was as if...More »
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Takashi Ohyama "Freezing at Moment"
Captured in Ohyama's photographs is the city of Tokyo during the late 20th century, which saw the end of the Showa Period and the beginning of the Heisei Period. Hoping to give the next generation a hint...More »
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All-Japan Community of Photographic Societies "All Japan Photographic Exhibition 2009"
The theme for this year's 37th "All Japan Photographic Exhibition 2009" is "capturing the current times with your unique sensitivity" and covers everything from every day life, local culture and people's...More »
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Takashi Kuraya "After The Sunset"
The subjects of Kuraya's work are gardens in housing complexes built from the 1940s to 1960s. Piled up in these yards are traces of human living and activities. Artificial devices, discarded junk and...More »
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Naoki Oji Exhibition
Oji became interested in Taira Jima, one of the Tokara Islands, when he worked with photographer Hiroshi Oshima in the early 1970s. It was a great opportunity for Oji to clarify his position at a time...More »
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Chieko Aoshima Exhibition
Over the last decade, Aoshima traveled through Japan, Taiwan, Thailand and India, documenting urban districts where private and public intersect with each other. As she advanced southward, the landscape...More »
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Moyuru Tsurusaki "Crossing the Ocean"
When his was a child, Tsurusaki got to know about Manchuria and the war-displaced Japanese in China through school textbooks and TV news. While these people have been forced to lead rugged lives after...More »
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Jui "Chaosmos"
Showcasing around 40 black and white photographs by Jui, who captured various kinds of cosmos and a chaotic landscape that unexpectedly appeared on the "other" side of the flower field.More »
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Soichiro Izumi "A Boat on the Water"
Triggered by his grandmother's childhood stories, Izumi started documenting the lives of survivors of World War II. Today, there are no remains of the landscape and buildings that these people inhabited...More »
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Yutaka Miyazaki "A Landscape Outside the Window"
Running through the city of Osaka, the Yodogawa River is a downtown oasis with an expansive river bed. The river is home to abundant nature rarely seen in an urban environment, while the river bed is a...More »
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Yumi Himesaki "Gifted"
Engaged in a job through which she has opportunities to come into contact with mentally disabled people, Himesaki has learned so much from them. These people generate a sort of gentle air within harsh...More »
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Shinya Ito "Ireland -To the Sacred Island"
The oldest record on Ireland written in Greece in the 6th century B.C. referred to Ireland as "the sacred island". Due to its geological nature, most of the buildings in Ireland are made out of stones....More »
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Gim Eun Ji "Ether"
Ether is the concept of a medium that transmits light waves. Faced with the prevalence of Einstein's theory of relativity, ether holds no meaning: it has become just an imaginary concept whose validity...More »
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Issho Ishida "Going Back and Forth: Yufuin-Tokyo 2008"
The world is filled with light. Ever-changing light is hard to capture, already disappearing by the time the artist gets hold of a camera. Holding a heavy wooden view camera and adjusting the aperture,...More »
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Fumihiko Kato Exhibition
Kato has been frequenting Yakushima Island for the past 12 years. Each time he visits, the island appears before his eyes with a different expression, showing various kinds of beauty depending on the season,...More »
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Yasutaka Kojima "Boroughs of New York"
New York City, consisting of 5 boroughs, Manhattan, the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, and Staten Island, this chaotic city never stops to radiate explosive energy. It's been 3 years since Kojima relocated himself...More »
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Koichi Osajima Exhibition
With marked improvements in living and cultural standards, spaces which used to be familiar are now about to disappear. However, it is not an exaggeration to say that these landscapes were the very ones...More »
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Michio Washio Exhibition
Washio finds himself drawn back to the past, living off old memories of his own. He considers a journey of self-discovery as the starting point of his creative activity, and hopes to find his ideal subjects...More »
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Masahiro Kawatei Exhibition
On view are 55 monochrome photographs by Masahiro Kawatei who continues to capture precious scenery of Enoshima, the seaside town where yoga painter Ryusei Kishida used to live and work. Through his work,...More »
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Kazuyoshi Koshiba "Minamata"
Koshiba did a photo shoot in Minamata for the first time in 30 years. In 1974, he decided to relocate himself to the area with the aim to record its real state. The plaintiff won at the Kumamoto trial...More »
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Shota Endo Exhibition
February 28th (Sat) 13:00-14:00 Gallery Talk 14:00- Portfolio ReviewMore »
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"2008 Japan Camera Photo Contest" Exhibition
This contest is held each month by the magazine Japan Camera, which was established in 1950. A famous photographer acts as the judge for a year and announces the winners in each magazine, and calculates...More »
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"Photo City Sagamihara 2008 Professional Category Prize-Winning Works" Exhibition
This exhibition showcases works by the four prize winners from the professional category of the 8th Photo Festival held in October 2008. Masataka Nakano received the Sagamihara Photo Award with "My...More »
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Kumiko Kuwabara Exhibition
This is Kumiko Kuwabara's first solo exhibition. Kuwabara started pursuing her career as a photographer 3 years ago. When she was studying film and photography at art school, she began shooting photos...More »
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Haruko Kamijo "Strolling Along the Coast"
"Why ocean?" Kamijo does not have a clear answer to this question. One thing for sure is that her heart starts beating faster as she strolls along the coast. As if being tugged by memories of her mother's...More »
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"56th Nikkor Photo Contest" Exhibition
This exhibition will display all of the awarded works from the 56th Nikkor Photo Contest. Nikkor Photo Contest aims for the development of photography as art, the betterment of photography technology,...More »
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Koji Omaru "Tokyo Tower"
While working near Tokyo Tower, Omaru often saw only its apex appear between buildings and part of it reflected in adjacent building windows. Boasting a height that exceeds 300 meters, this red-and-white...More »
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Kenshichi Hirashiki "Goat Lungs: Okinawa 1968-2005"
The goat encapsulates the essence of Okinawa. Although it is a quiet and gentle creature, it gets killed and eaten in the end because of its superb flavor. The title of this exhibition, "Goat Lungs," aptly...More »
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Atsuko Naganuma "Forest over the Rainbow"
Naganuma's intention is not to have viewers look closely at each of her photographs exhibited, but instead to let them experience the sensation of a large picture that looms at the edge of the whole exhibition...More »
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Tsutomu Seimiya "The Small World in Soap Bubble"
If you bring your face close to a bubble and observe it with a high-powered magnifying glass, the beautiful sight of these psychedelic colors and forms wavering inside its membrane will take your breath...More »
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Yasushi Tanikado "Screen of the Earth -US National Parks"
American continent lies between northern latitude of 30 degrees and 70 degrees, which includes the Arctic Circle. Tanikado divided various terrains of this continent into 6 areas: Glacier Country, Mountain...More »
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Kohei Takahashi "No Man's Land"
Kohei Takahashi has taken photographs of final-stage waste disposal sites in the main and satellite cities of Tokyo, Aichi, Hyogo, Osaka and Hiroshima. Accumulated and shored up in landfills at these sites...More »
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Setsuo Yamazaki "Ocean Therapy 2"
While suffering from schizophrenia, Yamazaki came to the realization that chaos was nothing but evil and that order was divine providence. When he realized that there was no evil which could face off against...More »
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John Sypal "Gaijin Like Me"
In general, Japanese associate "gaijin" (foreigner) with the image of an educated white man with blond hair and blue eyes. Numerous foreigners come to Japan everyday, and what they carry in their hands...More »
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Atsushi Okuyama Exhibition
It's been 10 years since Okuyama first met Benzo Inoue who lives in Hokkaido. Living in a 60-year-old hand-built cabin and leading self-sufficient life, Inoue, who turns 89 years old this year, is one...More »
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Michio Yamauchi "Tokyo"
This is one series from the "Tokyo" sequence of work that Yamauchi has devoted himself to since 1980. On display are snapshots taken in areas like Shinjuku, Shibuya and Asakusa around 2006. Compared to...More »
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Akito Okuda "Happy People"
Showcasing photographs the artist shot from September 2004 through January 2006 in Minamata City, Kumamoto, and its neighboring areas. Minamata has been known as a place filled with anger and tears. However,...More »
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Shinkichi Hosokawa "Seasonal Hometown Traditions -A Records of an Agar Cube Factory in Chino City, Nagano"
Having lived in Chino City for 16 years, Hosokawa has been able to continuously observe the process of kanten (agar) production taking place around the end of each year at a factory right next to his house....More »
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Yukiko Koshima "Fine, Occasionally Sandstorm"
In Beijing, China, destruction and regeneration of the city constantly take place. The city is in flux where everything becomes ambiguous between existence, disappearance and recreation. It is as if watching...More »
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Masafumi Uchino "From a Car Window"
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Makoto Kawai "Bevel"
Gallery Talk: April 12th (Sun) 13:00-14:00More »
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Yukihiro Akaishi "Memory of a Holy Place"
In the 70 monochrome photographs in this exhibition, Yukihiro Akaishi explores remain traces of the world view that began with the Jomon Era (14,000 BCE to 400 BCE).More »
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Nobuo Shimose "Kekkai"
Nobuo Shimose has been working on the photographs in this exhibition for several decades, and the series could be called his life work. The photographs show us lessons we can learn from nature by presenting...More »
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Masaki Kamei "Peace Village Diary"
Since 2003, Masaki Kamei has traveled to Vietnam 6 times to meet with and photograph victims affected by Agent Orange and other chemicals used during the Vietnam War. This exhibition presents 50 monochrome...More »
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Hatsumi Matsushita Exhibition
In this series of photographs and texts, Hatsumi Matsushita documents the process she, as a third-year university student, went through while looking for employment in the Japanese job market, feeling...More »
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"2007 Japan Camera Photo Contest" Exhibition
This contest is held each month by magazine "Japan Camera," which was established in 1950. A famous photographer acts as the judge for a year and announces the winners in each magazine, and calculates...More »
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"Photo City Sagamihara 2007 Pro Photographer Awards" Exhibition
"Photo City Sagamihara" is a photography festival organized by Sagamihara City, and welcomes a wide range of photography from art photos to family snapshots. The festival started in 2001, at the dawn of...More »
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Kaori Inbe "Moral Society"
In this exhibition photographer Kaori Inbe presents works that show her love for the complexity of people, with things from their past they never speak about, the dark sides of their personalities, and...More »
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Kaori Yoshihara "Capsule Apartment"
Capsule apartments comprise a 2.5 square meter private room and common area. This artist lived in a capsule apartment for over one and a half years and continued to photograph fellow residents even after...More »
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Noriyoshi Shibata "Back Alley Mandala"
This artist likes walking around in back alleys, and tends to seek them out while traveling in foreign countries. He has been observing people's lives in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou after taking an...More »
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Kenichi Yamanaka "Tensai (10 years old) Turns 20!"
Gohokuson is an agricultural village in central Kouchi Prefecture with a population of 3,200. There are virtually no jobs available locally, and the community is aging and depopulated. Since there are...More »
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Kanako Hamaguchi "Message from 2 Hours Time Difference"
The artist started having questions and complex feelings about religion when her grandfather passed away three years ago. Thinking that she could find some answers in Thailand, a country that holds Buddhist...More »
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Tetsuro Sato "New York Vagrancy"
This is an exhibition of the homeless of Manhattan, New York. Many of them are children of slaves, drug addicts, alcoholics, the unemployed and elderly, illegal immigrants, children of Native Americans...More »
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All-Japan Community of Photographic Societies "All Japan Photographic Exhibition 2007"
The theme for this year's 35th "All Japan Photographic Exhibition 2007" is "capturing the current times with your unique sense" and covers everything from every day life, local culture and people's livelihood...More »
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Haruka Hirose "Minasoko"
This is an exhibition of about 40 black and white photographs taken in Paris. Gallery Talk: August 4th (Sat), 13:00-14:00More »
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Jui "Kafukarasu"
94 black-and-white photographs.More »
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Chieko Aoshima "Shining Sound - IV Delhi"
This artist's "Shining Sound" series has been shown in Japan, Taiwan, Thailand and other Asian countries and finally arrived in Delhi, India. The works in this exhibition portray the natural, religious,...More »
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Yasuto Inamiya "Shape of the Nation - Highway Landscapes of Japan"
There are 8,920km of completed highways in Japan, and 15,000km when those under construction and currently in the planning stages are included. This artist traveled through Japan from 2005 to 2007 to photograph...More »
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Taeko Ara "√1 (Square root of 1)"
These works are the continuation of the artist's photograph exhibition "Muna Kami (God of Breasts) - From the Day I Got Breast Cancer." After she became sick, the artist had difficulty finding a way to...More »
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Isamu Iida "Border Transgression Zone"
This photographer has been reporting on North Koreans fleeing into China for 10 years, and on seven occasions has traveled through the area where most refugees cross the border. At the time of his first...More »
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Keishi Kubo "Scenes Not Passed By"
The artist enjoys taking photographs of scenes in every day life that appeal to his senses and in places where he is a stranger. Scenes that seem ordinary to those familiar with them can cause a stranger...More »
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Keiji Sato "Tokyo Theater"
46 color photos of scenes from Tokyo will be on display.More »
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Salley Ikuo "Sweet Hell"
This exhibition features the 13th Sakata City Domon Ken Culture Award winning work "Sweet Hell" by artist Salley Ikuo. The photographs were taken when the artist lived out of a rented room in Hollywood....More »
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Tomoe Murakami "Water, Full -The Series of Water"
The artist has been taking this photographic series of scenes featuring water for six years. She is attracted to the moment and place that water overflows, or when the air becomes full of water. 16 color...More »
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Tomohiro Kaneko "Botany"
44 black-and-white photographs.More »
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Masami Taira "Okinawa (Uchinaa) Garden II - Liberalization Gained from Suspension"
The spaces around our houses seem disinterested in glossing over their surfaces to appear abundant or pretty; they unabashedly expose the scents of daily life. The artist was somehow attracted to these...More »
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Kumiko Karino "Backyard - Hidden Garden - 2007"
Recently, the artist seems to have given up on searching for and photographing places she considered her own backyard. In this state, scenes repeatedly played on her mind until she started finding these...More »
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Miyuki Motoki "Knots of Breath"
The artist has been photographing a Hokkaido farm family for many years, making the switch in equipment from chemical camera to a high-mobility digital camera along the way. The family's daily life neither...More »
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Sadako Takagi "The Scent of the Earth: Ihei Kimura's Akita - Recollections"
One summer during one of her trips through Akita Prefecture, the photographer visited the home of Sei Inoue - the subject of Ihei Kimura's photograph "Mother-in-Law" from more than fifty years ago - but...More »
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Akihiro Nakamura "Suburban Catastrophe"
This town in a suburb of Tokyo presents new scenery by creating even more suburbs within the existing. Distinctive spaces showing signs of their growth accumulated through the slow passage of time are...More »
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Kazunori Jitousho "The City is a Miniature Garden, The Observatory is a Treasure Box"
When you go to observatories, you often hear children shouting "Wow! It's like a miniature garden!" and "Miniature cars are running through the streets!" Indeed, the sense of scale and out-of-this-world...More »
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Setsuo Yamazaki "Ocean Therapy"
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"2006 Japan Camera Photo Contest" Exhibition
This contest is held each month by Japan Camera, which was established in 1951. A famous photographer acts as the judge for a year and announces the winners in each magazine, and calculates the points...More »
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Photo City Sagamihara 2006 Professional Photographers Category
"Photo City Sagamihara" is a photography festival held by Sagamihara City as a platform to present 'the new Sagamihara culture' to the world. The festival supports up and coming photographers and amateurs...More »
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Hiroshi Saito "Sitting back and watching foolishness"
30 monochrome photographs of present day Matsuo Mine, which was called 'paradise on clouds' and 'warship island of the East' in its heyday. The mine stopped operating a long time ago and everything...More »
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Ichiro Kikuchi "Fake Landscapes"
44 monochrome photographs by Ichiro Kikuchi, who travels around Japan capturing traces of human beings in landscapes. He discovered a sense of displacement between them and made a collection of "fake landscapes"...More »
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54th Nikkor Photo Contest Exhibition
This exhibition will display all of the awarded works from the 54th Nikkor Photo Contest. Nikkor Photo Contest aims for the development of photography as art, the betterment of photography technology,...More »
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Soichiro Izumi "Human Train"
Thirty color photographs of people on a train. Compared to taking a car or bicycle to work, there is nothing you can do to make the train go faster once you've boarded it. Soichiro Izumi regards each...More »
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Chihiro Minato "Chromatic Citizen"
Chihiro Minato felt something was different between the anti war demonstrations in London and Rome and the ones held in East Europe 15 years ago. There were more people, but there was no sense of togetherness....More »
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Hiroto Sekiguchi "Cambodia - Living in Mondol Chon Pika"
An exhibition of 40 monochrome photographs of Mondol Chon Pika, a village in the outskirts of the Angkor ruins in Cambodia that was built by landmine victims who lost their homes in the civil war of 1996....More »
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Yunwu Wang "Great Wall of China"
40 monochrome photographs of the Great Wall of China, which is protected as an important historical and cultural asset and is one of UNESCO's World Heritages. Yunwu Wang's concept is to 'use an excellent...More »
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Toru Tago "Red Lights"
While the color blue* stands for the sky, ocean, vastness of space and freedom, red stands for friendship, blood, passion, and danger. From that perspective, the traffic signal has both 'freedom' and 'danger'...More »
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Hwang Yongki "Night Mirage"
An exhibition of 20-30 color photographs by Hwang Yongki, who has been living in Japan since April 2004. Yongki explores the existence of pachinko parlors in Japan as part of the urban landscape that...More »
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Shin Eun-Kyung "Wedding Hall"
An exhibition of 20 color photographs that explore foreign culture in South Korea through wedding halls. Marriage is a social system that creates a relationship between a husband and wife, constituting...More »
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Naohisa Inoue "The Continuance of a Dream"
44 color photographs. Contemporary society is a virtual society, where talking on the cell phone with somebody is more comfortable than talking face to face. As the line between reality and the virtual...More »
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Jun Ohta "24 Wards of Osaka"
60 monochrome photographs that Jun Ohta took while walking around the town of Osaka with a map in hand. To Ohta, if taking a walk was the act of getting in touch with the changing of seasons, then taking...More »
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Mitsuru Fujita "Beautiful Countryside 2000-2006"
80 monochrome photographs of the countryside. As metropolises and suburbs evolve with the changes in economy, the countryside remains the same. Fujita captues on film the invisible rhythm of daily life...More »
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Yuzuru Oshihara "Gaza in May"
30 monochrome photographs from the 28 days that Yuzuru Oshihara spent in the focus point of America's "war against terror", Gaza. There was an intense period in which the Israeli army made indiscriminate...More »
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Rika Imai "The Real Proof"
Thirty monochrome photographs of women that Rika Imai met on the street. More »
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Toshio Goto "To a Manchurian Village"
An exhibition of 45 monochrome photographs taken throughout Toshio Goto's three trips through the area that used to be Manchuria. Goto walked through the countryside with an old map of the Manchurian colony...More »
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Hiroyuki Ohsawa "Bitter Tansies"
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Masayuki Nakahigashi "Goodbye Gunkan Apartments"
As part of a project to improve slum areas of Osaka City, an array of modern apartments were constructed in the Naniwa District in 1931. They were affectionately called the 'Gunkan Apartments' for their...More »
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Satoko Hashimoto "Cochlea"
Gallery talk: September 2nd, 13:00-14:00More »
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Akio Ohta "Our Islands are Disappearing"
This is an exhibition of 59 color photographs. With warm weather and friendly people, the islands that dot the Seto Inland Sea are like heaven. However, most of the islanders are elderly people, and the...More »
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Daisuke Kamimura "Painted Wall Korea"
This is an exhibition of 40 color photographs that Daisuke Kamimura took in South Korea while searching for a particular 'something' that East Asian cities have in common.More »
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Teppei Hoshida "With Mother"
22 color photographs. Teppei Hoshida thinks that one's mother is the person closest to one's heart, especially for men, who continue to look for women that resemble her, deep in their hearts. He captured...More »
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Seiki Kobayashi "Urban Corridors"
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Nikon Photo Contest International 2004-2005 Awarded Works
Nikon Photo Contest International, established in 1969 as an opportunity for interaction between professional and amateur photographers, is the largest international photography contest in the world. This...More »
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Kazuhiro Tashiro Exhibition
40 color photographs of high school students that Kazuhiro Tashiro met around town. Tashiro thinks that high school is where people start questioning their place in society, and he has captured their...More »
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Keizo Motoda "Sidewalk"
40 color and monochrome photographs. For 10 years, Keizo Motoda has taken photographs of anybody and anything that looks interesting from the sidewalks of Tokyo. Motoda hopes that his works will express...More »
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Makoto Murakami "Ubusuna"
18 color photographs of the erosion control forest planted along the Enshu Sea. Makoto Murakami spent two years taking photographs of this thin strip of forest, which is 100km long from Hamanako Lake...More »
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Takako Chida "Anonymous City"
40 monochrome photographs of urban landscapes by Takako Chida.More »
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Yusuke Hishida "Our School - Наша Щкопа"
Gallery Talk:6/10 13:00-14:00More »
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Tokyo Photography Month 2006 - Sakai City Ken Domon Cultural Award
This is an exhibition of 36 selected works from 12 editions of the Sakai City Ken Domon Cultural Award. Established in 2005 by Ken Domon Memorial Museum, the award is open to amateur photographers. The...More »
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Akira Yamashita "In the Arms of a Dream"
This is an exhibition of the recipient of the 12th Sakai City Domonken Cultural Award. Masatoki, the elder brother of the artist, was killed in action on May 25th, 1945. A kamikaze pilot, he was one of...More »
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Daijiro Goto "Man Who Is Bumming Around"
10 color and 44 monochrome photographs by Daijiro Goto, an artist who spent his 20s wandering abroad. He crossed the North American continent on a broken-down hatch back that he bought with 500 dollars...More »
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Junichiro Sato "Unknown Time"
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Existence and Time
30 monochrome photographs to the theme of "Spirit of the Earth". Hirotaka Kasuga has spent years pursuing nature from the viewpoint of 'existence and time'. Both the magnificence and delicacy of nature...More »
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Blue Ocean
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The Walls of an Empire