Shinjuku Nikon Salon - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Shinjuku Nikon Salon. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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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, (...)
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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. (...)
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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 (...)
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Masafumi Uchino "From a Car Window"
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Makoto Kawai "Bevel"
Gallery Talk: April 12th (Sun) 13:00-14:00
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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).
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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 (...)
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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 (...)
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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 (...)
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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 (...)
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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 (...)
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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 (...)
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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 (...)
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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 (...)
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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 (...)
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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 (...)
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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 (...)
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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 (...)
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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), 13:00-14:00
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Jui "Kafukarasu"
94 black-and-white photographs.
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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, (...)
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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 (...)
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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 (...)
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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 (...)
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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 (...)
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Keiji Sato "Tokyo Theater"
46 color photos of scenes from Tokyo will be on display.
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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. (...)
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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 (...)
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Tomohiro Kaneko "Botany"
44 black-and-white photographs.
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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 (...)
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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 (...)
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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 (...)
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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 (...)
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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 (...)
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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 (...)
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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 (...)
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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 (...)
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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 (...)
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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" (...)
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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, (...)
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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 (...)
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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. (...)
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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. (...)
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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 (...)
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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' (...)
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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 (...)
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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 (...)
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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 (...)
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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 (...)
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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 (...)
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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 (...)
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Rika Imai "The Real Proof"
Thirty monochrome photographs of women that Rika Imai met on the street.
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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 (...)
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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 (...)
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Satoko Hashimoto "Cochlea"
Gallery talk: September 2nd, 13:00-14:00
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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 (...)
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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.
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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 (...)
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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 (...)
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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 (...)
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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 (...)
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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 (...)
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Takako Chida "Anonymous City"
40 monochrome photographs of urban landscapes by Takako Chida.
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Yusuke Hishida "Our School - Наша Щкопа"
Gallery Talk:6/10 13:00-14:00
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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 (...)
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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 (...)
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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 (...)
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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 (...)
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Blue Ocean
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The Walls of an Empire





