Photographers' Gallery - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Photographers' Gallery. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Mariko Takahashi "Moonlight Picture"
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Naoki Oji "Cult of Personality"
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Kazutomo Tashiro "Trans National"
Showcasing photographs Tashiro took from 2006 up until 2008 mainly in the suburban area of Paris. In order to define "suburban Paris", he traveled back and forth between Paris (20 wards) and the border (...)
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Hiroshi Otomo "Northern Light 2 -Sister"
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Hiroshi Oshima + Katsuhide Arai "Re-presentation"
Photographer Hiroshi Oshima started his career with two exhibitions: "Hikari" (1967, Kinokuniya Gallery) and "Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre" (1968, Ginza Gallery). In the 1970s, he created the term 'on (...)
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Keiko Sasaoka "Waters"
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Masato Seto "Soap Land 2007, Bangkok"
-Talk Event "Toi & Masato" Guests: Masato Seto, Keizo Kitajima Date & Time: May 10th (Sat) 19:00- Fee: ¥1000 (Including 1 drink. Reservation required) Location: Place M For reservation and (...)
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Keizo Kitajima "Portraits"
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Naoki Ohji "Cult of Personality"
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Kota Kishi "Wound, Eyes that Saw"
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Shizune Shiigi "From Scenery"
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Takuro Yoneda Exhibition
This exhibition presents photographs of people in the city. When looking at banal scenes in the city, one cannot help but to look at passersby walking in the direction. These photographs present the kind (...)
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Naoki Ohji "Cult of Personailty"
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Shigeru Matsui "Photogramma : Deixis of Index"
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Masashi Otomo "Northern Land 1 - Mothers and Daughters"
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Kumi Yokoku "The History or Fairy Tales in 2007"
Is it really impossible to hear the voices of the departed? How do the living interact with with the past? Through memory? Through monuments? Or through some direct feeling? The artist took these (...)
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"Squint of Okinawa" Exhibition
2007 marks the 35st anniversary of Okinawa's handover to Japan, as well the opening of the Okinawan Art Museum, making this an important year for Okinawa. This exhibition brings together works by Okinawan (...)
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Hitoshi Toyoda "Spoonfulriver"
This artist is based in New York and creates visual diaries in a slide show format. Two works will be screened. "Spoonfulriver" (2006-2007 / 80 minutes / silent) This new work consisting of about 500 (...)
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Special Talk Event "Jeff Wall"
The special event talk show "Jeff Wall" for the 5-lecture series "Uncertain Territory - Conceptual Art and Photography" will be held on August 25th. Jeff Wall's work is supported by dense critical and (...)
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Naoki Ohji "Cult of Personality"
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Shigeru Matsui "Photogramma: Deixis of Index"
This exhibition comprises the "Quantum Poem" exhibitions that the artist has been continuously creating since 2002. These poems are based on daily weather reports from the morning newspaper. The word "photogramma" (...)
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Masashi Otomo "The Middle"
The artist, who has usually photographed his family, turns to scenery. The location is Kita-hiroshima City in Hokkaido, where his family lives. 10 Type C photographs will be on display.
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Naoki Ohji "Cult of Personality"
In 2006, the artist held a monthly photography exhibition series called "XXXX Street Snapshots". That series centered on photographs of scenery, but this series is composed mainly of photographs of people. (...)
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Tomoyuki Oka "Asia on the Road - Part 1"
This is the first in a five-part photographic series by the artist who has been continuously traveling through and photographing Asia since 1986. He photographs budget inns in India, the Balinese seashore, (...)
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Takuro Yoneda "Exaggeration Etiquette"
Approximately 10 inkjet print works will be on display.
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Kouta Kishi "Wound, The Eye that Saw"
There are numerous Japanese towns that have "yoseba" (sites where day laborers are contracted). Yanaka, Tokyo, Kotobuki-cho, Yokohama, and Kamagasaki, Osaka were particularly large. The artist has lived (...)
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Mariko Takahashi "Moonlight Photos"
Cold, damp light. Dim, white light. Moonlit images are filled with madness and stillness, solitude and sensuality. In this exhibition, bewitching portraits taken with faint interior lighting will be (...)
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Shigeru Matsui "Photogramma: Deixis of Index"
This exhibition comprises the "Quantum Poem" exhibitions that have been continuously created since 2002. These poems are based on daily weather reports from the morning newspaper. The word "photogramma" (...)
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Naoki Ohji "Cult of Personality"
In 2006, the artist held a monthly photography exhibition series called "XXXX Street Snapshots". That series centered on photographs of scenery, but this series is composed mainly of photographs of people. (...)
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Lecture Series "The Godard System"
Lecture No.14: April 7th, 18:00- Series "The Godard System" 3rd lecture "Torture and Resurrection - Considering Nonresponsiveness" Lecturer: Kei Hirakura (Film Critic/Art Writer) Lecture No.15: April (...)
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Huang Yongki + Mizota Kiichi Exhibition
This exhibition will be held at the Photographers' Gallery and Ikazuchi, across the hall.
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Lecture Series "The Godard System"
Jean-Luc Godard (born 1930) was clearly thinking something when he was making his films, but what was it? There are many images that are clearly being "quoted" in his films, but it is not at all clear (...)
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Hiroshi Otomo "Bookshelf"
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Kota Kishi "Wounds, Appearances"
Many towns are known as 'yoseba' (gathering places for the homeless and unemployed). Some of the large-scale yoseba include Sanya in Tokyo, Kotobuki-cho in Yokohama, Kamagasaki in Osaka, Sasajima in Nagoya, (...)
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Mitsunori Kurashige "disPLACEment - displacement of 'place' vol. 2"
This exhibition is the 2nd installment of "disPLACEment - displacement of 'place'" which started in May 2005. Volume 2 features a private exhibition by artist Mitsunori Kurashige, who has been actively (...)
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Talk Event "Uncertain Territory - Conceptual Art and Photography"
Conceptual art was a movement that has come to be talked about in over-generalized terms, when in fact it comprised of a diverse range of artists who each had their own approach to making work. While there (...)
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Talk Event "Knitting Photography"
In October last year, Seiichi Furuya's photography book "Memoirs 1983 Christine Furuya - Gossler 1983" was published. As the title suggests, all the photos in this book were taken in 1983. After some time, (...)
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Naoki Ohji "Cult of Personality"
During 2006, Naoki Ohji held a series of monthly exhibitions entitled "XXXX Street Snapshots" at the Photographers' Gallery. While those works consisted mainly of sceneries, these now focus on people. (...)
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Talk event: "Art and Dematerialization, as introduced by Lucy L. Lippard - Part 1"
In the 1960s, artistic expression in America saw multiple trends that rejected the modernist aesthetics espoused by the art critic Clement Greenberg. Referring to Lucy R. Lippard's book "Six Years: The (...)
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Talk event: "2.5D Reality - The Joys of Stereoscope Photography"
Looking at the manner in which 19th century photography was distributed, stereoscopes existed alongside postcards and portrait photographs. Stereoscopes are scientific experimental equipment that were (...)
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Masashi Otomo Exhibition
Taken from a series of portraits, landscapes and self-portraits of the artist's family in Hokkaido, this exhibition features portraits of the artist's elder sister. Although this series features his family, (...)
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Lecture "The Theatricality of Photography 1 - Idols"
Idols - they are the ideals of our imagination, the objects of our desire on TV and in magazines. Although idols are at times loved excessively, then forgotten as their appeal fades, they are also 'mirrors' (...)
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Lecture "The Paradox of News Photography"
Ihei Kimura, who holds exhibitions of his photography and publishes photography books is currently very popular. Not very much is known about his activities during the war, such as his work for the magazine (...)
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Iseo Nose "Portograph"
Photographer's gallery is holding a private exhibition of Iseo Nose, a photographer based in Okayama. Since encountering the concept of "asobi-zu" which brings together ideas from various arenas, he has (...)
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Talk Event "The Two Faces of the Biennial: Sevilla and Singapore"
This talk addresses the question of what biennials are for. It is said that cities hold biennials as an appeal to the outside world, as a way of activating themselves and to put the spotlight on what is (...)
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Naoki Ohji "XXXX Street Snapshots Vol.12"
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Talk Event "From Ground Zero to the Zero of Photography"
This talk is being given by the writer of "Architecture and Destruction - The Contemporary Age as Thought", and considers the role of photography and architecture in the post September 11 age. Panel: (...)
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Kota Kishi "Wounds, Appearances"
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Talk Event "Albert Rondo: The Politics of Time"
At the "Augustine Bataille Explosion #1: Entoptic and Ecstasy" exhibition of Chihiro Minato's work held at the Photographers' Gallery in October 2005, photographs depicting Augustine, who was a patient (...)
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Naoki Ohji "XXXX Street Snapshots Vol.11"
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Keiko Sasaoka "Tourism"
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Naoki Ohji "XXXX Street Snapshots Vol.10"
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Masashi Ohtomo "Seascapes"
Ohtomo photographs the landscapes of Hokkaido as well as making portraits of his family that lives there and self-portraits. He photographs the reality of his immediate surrounds, such as the decorative (...)
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Naoki Ohji "XXXX Street Snapshots Vol.9"
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Naoki Ohji "XXXX Street Snapshots Vol.8"
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Naoki Ohji "XXXX Street Snapshots Vol.7"
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Kota Kishi "Wounds, Appearances"
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Naoki Ohji "XXXX Street Snapshots Vol.6"
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Keiko Sasaoka "Park City" & "Kanko"
"Park City." Hiroshima is a city of gardens. Half a century after the Memorial Peace Park was completed, Sasaoka's photography of Hiroshima is not about restructuring the memories we have from traces (...)
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ICANOF "Telometric Exhibition Vol.2"
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Naoki Ohji "XXXX Street Snapshots Vol.5"
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Mariko Takahashi "Small, Fine Texture"
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Naoki Ohji "XXXX Street Snapshots Vol.4"
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ICANOF "Telomeric Exhibition Vol.1"
A group exhibition by photographers of ICANOF, an association founded in December 2000 to explore photography, visual, and media art. They have had great success in revitalizing the art scene in Hachinohe, (...)
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Naoki Ohji "XXXX Street Snapshots Vol.3"
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Keiko Sasaoka "Kanko"
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Naoki Ohji "XXXX Street Snapshots Vol.2"
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Kota Kishi Exhibition
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Naoki Ohji "XXXX Street Snapshots"
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Keiko Sasaoka "Kanko"
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Moon Laughter
In between four walls and a closed door, men have their face photographed, over and over again. Saki Nakamura communicates with them and lets the shutter follow the vibes. Ultimately, what the artist aims (...)
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Tomoki Ryu Exhibition "Nami"
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Kumi Yokoyu "Snowman"
New works from Kumi Yokoyu's color print series: photographs of a cold and dark Sapporo City in the winter of 2004-2005. Yokoyu used day light film from evening to midnight without color correction to (...)
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Augustine Bataille Explosion #1: Entoptic and Ecstasy
Art from the Paleolithic Period meets human hysteria in this experiment of neural photonics. The exhibition consists of two parts: Photographs and videos of cave paintings in Africa and Europe that feature (...)
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Shuhei Motoyama "The Time of Castles, the Everydayness of Light"
"In-betweeen", from EU-Japan Fest, is a 14-volume series of groundbreaking photo collections by 13 photographers, covering the 25 countries of the EU. This is an exhibition of Shuhei Motoyama's photographs (...)
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Yasushi Nishimura - Broadway
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Naoki Oji "Seoul"
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disPLACEment
The photographers exhibiting in this show have chosen to depict a scenery or a place that is difficult to identify. Despite this anonymity, what meaning can we find when they are exhibited in a well known (...)
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Hiroshi Oshima - "the Tokara Islands" & "the Sand"
Since the mid '60s, photographer Hiroshi Oshima has been active in producing works that challenge the possibilities of photography. In this exhibition, vintage works of his from the mid 70's will be (...)
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Keiko Sasaoka "Kanko"
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Shuhei Motoyama "Okhotsk Diamond Dust"
This is a rare opportunity to see new photographs by Shuhei Motoyama in Tokyo. As he travels to more places to photograph, his work has been actively exhibited in various regions such as Hakata, Hirosaki, (...)
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Yasushi Nishimura : Eyes' Box
Taking snaps on the street signifies making contact with various individual expressions and faces. The beholder is beheld; subject and object are indifferentiated through the viewfinder. About 20 color (...)
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Kanako Nakayama Photo Exhibition -Rose Agency
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Works of Takashi Yamamoto and Shigeyuki Toshima
ICANOF is an organization from Hachinohei, Aomori, that supports and hosts various art events. This exhibition features two photographers from ICANOF.
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Overfloat
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Nanamui by Toyomitsu Higa
"The Luminous Gods of Nanamui" photographs were born through intimate communications between the photographer Toyomistu Higa and the female priests Nishihara, a small community in Miyako-Island.
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Another Photographers' Gallery 003
This is the third event of "Another Photographers' Gallery" which showcases new emerging artists of various medium. Art performances by Reiko Shitara and installation works by Misaki Machino will be (...)
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Naoki Oji "Seoul"
Photography works by Naoki Oji.
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Ayao Nakamura "Awai 2004 Autumn"
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Mariko Takahashi Phtography "Guts of Rainbows"
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Satoko Yoshinaga Photography "10.15"



