PGI - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for PGI. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Holidays
This exhibition features 30 works in celebration of the 100th birthday of Yasuhiro Ishimoto. Exhibited works include scenes of a snowy Chicago, Willy Ronis’ shots of Paris at Christmas, black and white...More »
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Yoshinori Marui “Apparition”
PGI is pleased to announce Yoshinori Marui’s fourth solo exhibition at our gallery following a four-year hiatus. Opening on October 15th, the show will feature approximately twenty prints from his latest...More »
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Hiroyuki Takenouchi “Distance & Depth”
Takenouchi’s exhibitions to date include Liberty City (P.G.I.), Crow (P.G.I.), Things will get better over time (Gallery Trax), The Fourth Wall (PGI) and Distance and Depth (Studio Staff Only). Whether...More »
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PGI Summer Show 2020 “Colors”
Around 40 photographs capturing subjects such as Katsura Rikyu, the abstract paintings of Harry Callahan, and NASA space images in color. More »
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Kozo Miyoshi “Sakura”
*PGI will be open from June 3. Thirty monochrome prints taken with a large-format camera capturing cherry blossoms and people admiring them across Japan. More »
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Munemasa Takahashi “Spinning a Yarn”
The idea for Spinning a Yarn came from a conversation the artist had in a car ride with a friend who suggested “taking pictures of things floating in water”. However, the idea was soon forgotten and nothing...More »
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Yuji Hamada “K”
“K,” the third installment in this series, refers to both the black key plate used in printing and the unit of temperature measurement on the Kelvin scale. To represent these two elements in photographic...More »
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Yuki Shimizu “Empty Park”
Photographer and novelist Yuki Shimizu uses a mix of images and prose to weave stories rooted in the history and lore of her landscapes. Empty park is a series based on a large park she grew up nearby....More »
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Takashi Arai “Imago”
Takashi Arai is one of the few photographers today working in daguerreotype. For this project, Arai interviewed and took portrait photographs of 14 to 17-year-olds.More »
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PGI Summer Show 2019 “mono / tone”
A group exhibition of young photographers working with black and white images. Around 50 works are on display. More »
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Kikuji Kawada “Shadow in the Shadow”
Kikuji Kawada’s 60-year career as a photographer began with shooting gravure for Shukan Shincho magazine in 1956. Since then, ambitious works like Chizu (The Map) [1965], a metaphor-riddled recollection...More »
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PGI 40th: 1979-2019
An exhibition for the 40th anniversary of PGI (Photo Gallery International), which since 1979 has been promoting “photography as fine art.” High-quality images with a strong sense of place from throughout...More »
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Shintaro Sato “The Origin of Tokyo”
Tokyo is undergoing a major wave of change in preparation for the 2020 Olympic Games. Rather than focus on these changes, Shintaro Sato has chosen to photograph one of the only locations not to be affected...More »
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Kozo Miyoshi “Mayu”
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Osamu James Nakagawa “Eclipse”
Osamu James Nakagawa was born in New York City and raised in Japan before returning to the States as a teen in the 1970s. His career as an artist began in the 1990s. Since then he has worked on numerous...More »
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Yuji Hamada “R G B”
A second series of works by photographer Yuji Hamada considering color and light, specifically red, blue, and green––the three primary colors of light. Around 20 chromogenic prints are on display. More »
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Women— through the lens
PGI is pleased to present Women −through the lens−, the group exhibition of gallery collections.For a long time, women have brought a lot of master pieces as a subject… elegance, delicacy, glamour with...More »
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Naohisa Hara “Mirage IV”
Naohisa Hara is a photographer best known for his 8×10 large format documentation of the ever-changing cityscapes of Europe, including Paris and Italy’s mountain villages. More recently, however, he’s...More »
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Michiko Kon “Recent Works 2018”
Michiko Kon delves deep into her subconscious to bring back inspiration for her otherworldly still life images. Since the mid-1980s she has been transforming seemingly mundane objects like vegetables,...More »
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Kikuji Kawada “Los Caprichos - Instagraphy - 2017”
“Los Caprichos - Instagraphy - 2017” features a new edition of the original works created between the 1960s and early 1980s presented together with previously unreleased images and a sequel shot between...More »
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Hiroyuki Takenouchi “The Fourth Wall”
Having unveiled works such as Liberty City (P.G.I.), SEASONS (Foil Gallery), and Crow (P.G.I.), photographer Hiroyuki Takenouchi has set his sights on presenting audiences with metropolitan landscapes;...More »
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Kozo Miyoshi “On the Road Again”
Kozo Miyoshi’s journey as a photographer started in the 1970s. He began working with large format 8×10 cameras in 1981 and used them until upgrading to the 16×20 ultra-large format in 2009. “Road tripping...More »
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PGI Summer Show: Birds in the Hand
Artwork about birds.More »
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Yuji Hamada “Broken Chord”
Yuji Hamada’s “Broken Chord” series came about after a visit to Wrocław, a Polish city designated as the European Capital of Culture in 2016. Poland’s borders have been redrawn numerous times over the...More »
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Tokuko Ushioda “Bibliotheca”
This solo photography exhibition, Tokuko Ushioda’s first with PGI, will include approximately 25 gelatin silver prints from her most recent work “Bibliotheca.” Ushioda was born in Tokyo in 1940. She studied...More »
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Yoshihiko Ito “In the Box”
Yoshihiko Ito was born in 1951. After graduating from Tokyo College of Photography in 1977, he turned to using photography to express abstract concepts such as time and consciousness. Since his career...More »
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Ray Metzker “Informed by Light 1957-1968”
Ray Metzker was born in 1931 in Milwaukee. From 1956-1959, he attended the Institute of Design in Chicago, a renowned school known as the “New Bauhaus” that was established by László Moholy-Nagy. At ID,...More »
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Yoshinori Marui “Point-flash”
Yoshinori Marui features 17 works from his “Point-Flash” series, presented alongside the artist’s writing on the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead and further responses from young theorist Koji Yoshida....More »
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Take in
An exhibition about what it means to see, take in, and comprehend through sight.More »
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Munemasa Takahashi “Laying Stones”
Having joined the “Salvage Memory Project”, which involved returning photographs that were swept away by the tsunami to their owners in Yamamoto, Miyagi prefecture Takahashi co-founded in 2012 the “Lost...More »
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Kikuji Kawada “Last Things”
Presenting images from Kawada’s 2013–2015 series “Last Things,” a follow-up to “World’s End” from 2010 and “2011-phenomena” from 2012. More »
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Kozo Miyoshi “Apple Tree”
Kozo Miyoshi’s photographs of apple farmers and the landscapes surrounding them are perfect reflections of human livelihood, relationships, and history.More »
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Yuji Hamada “C/M/Y”
Photo Gallery International is pleased to announce an exhibition by Yuji Hamada from 18 August to 17 October, 2015, Hamada’s second solo show here since 2012. In the series “C/M/Y,” Hamada creates unique...More »
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Ikko Narahara “Japanesque Zen”
8 titles of Zen, the Sword, Color, Noh, Sumo, the Seal, Haiku and Verse make up the series “Japanesque”, first published as a photo book in 1970. Having been brought up in “post-war” years with the sudden...More »
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Kiyoshi Yagi “Silat Naalagaq”
Kiyoshi Yagi has continued to frequent the harsh landscapes of Greenland and Alaska, documenting the lifestyles of native peoples, with a unique culture set amongst the extremes of nature. The title of...More »
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Shintaro Sato “Night Lights”
In his photography, Shintaro Sato documents the ways that Tokyo is constantly, involuntarily transforming, as if a living organism. He does not only present the changes visible to the eye, but incorporates...More »
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P.G.I. October Show 2014
Contemporary photography focusing on form, including Kikuji Kawada’s snapshots, Yasuhiro Ishimoto’s images of Katsura Imperial Villa, and Aaron Siskind’s major series “Pleasures and Terrors of Levitation.”...More »
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Takashi Arai “Exposed in a Hundred Suns”
Takashi Arai is one of the few photographers who continue to use the early photography method of the daguerreotype and features here recent works created around the theme of the “nuclear”.More »
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Osamu James Nakagawa “Gama Caves”
With Gama Caves, Nakagawa continues his exploration of Okinawan history through its landscape. Gama Caves is the third in his series, Okinawa Trilogy and is the subject of Nakagawa’s most recent publication....More »
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“Still Life”
The artist couple Mark Osterman and France Scally Osterman are known as leaders in the photographic technique of the wet collodion process and hold regular workshops across the USA, Europe and Japan, producing...More »
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Mamoru Sugiyama “Today”
Mamoru Sugiyama’s photographs carving out inconspicuous moments can be viewed as records of memory. New works from his “Today” series examine each day in his fifteen-year experience with gradually progressing...More »
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Michiko Kon “Recent Works”
Dotted with motifs of paper scrolls, traditional tools, Japanese dolls and other such Japanese images, Michiko Kon showcases a body of work which touches directly upon notions of life and death through...More »
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Hiroaki Ishii “Strange Garden”
More than 20 platinum prints of photographs of people and plants. More »
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Kozo Miyoshi “Sabi”
The town of Wyandotte, Michigan became famous during height of the automotive age for making toys from the scrap metal of car manufactures. This exhibition presents around 20 silver gelatin photographs...More »
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Issei Suda “Temptation 2011-2013”
Issei Suda’s photographs create unique worlds where people, streets, and other common motifs are presented in surprising diversity. This exhibition presents 25 gelatin silver prints.More »
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Itaru Hirama “Last Movement”
Taking up his camera in response to the destruction encountered in his own home town as a result of the Great East Japan Earthquake Itaru Hirama came to reflect on the fluctuation of place as a point from...More »
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Yuji Hamada “Pulsar + Primal Mountain”
This exhibition brings together two series of work “Pulsar” and “Primal Mountain”. “Pulsar” consists of a series of photographs of familiar overlooked places aiming not to portray the objects of the scene...More »
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Naohisa Hara "Asian Voyage: Beijing hutong"
Features some twenty photographs from a series looking at the disappearing culture of Beijing's hutong. [Image: Naohisa Hara]More »
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Ryouta Katsukura Exhibition
Features work on the theme of Japan. [Image: Ryouta Katsukura]More »
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Kozo Miyoshi "Yubune"
Kozo Miyoshi is one of the representative contemporary photographers of Japan. He started his career as a photographer in the 1970s and began to take photographs of views fascinating to him with an 8x10-inch...More »
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Kikuji Kawada "2011 - phenomena"
This exhibition features works from a new series that pays particular attention to the specific places and times associated with the population of an urban area, tracing how concrete emotions and spaces...More »
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Yasuhiro Ishimoto "Chicago, Chicago"
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Yasuhiro Ishimoto on Feb. 6, 2012. In memory of Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Photo Gallery International will hold an exhibition of his acclaimed work “Chicago,...More »
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Tomio Seike "Overlook"
This exhibition by Europe-based photographer Tomio Seike features works taken from the window of a flat in Brighton, England. Brighton has long been an inspiration for his previous work, such as Waterscapes...More »
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Shintaro Sato "Tokyo Risen in the East"
Features photographs of urban landscapes, including the symbolic Tokyo Sky Tree.More »
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Yasuhiro Ishimoto "Mandala"
Held to coincide with the publication of Ishimoto's new book from Heibonsha, this exhibition showcases a selection of 30 color prints depicting mandalas from India, China, Korea and Japan that express...More »
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Issei Suda “Sparrow Island”
In a moment of brief but close communication with his subjects, Suda’s snapshots convey the wonder of the existence of these beings. Photographing people, streets and scenes of everyday life, Issei Suda...More »
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Kiyoshi Yagi "sila"
This exhibition is held in parallel with the publication of Kiyoshi Yagi's "sila" photo book. The "sila" of the title is an Inuit word with many meanings. It can designate something outside such as the...More »
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Kikuji Kawada "Nikko - A Parable"
On display are photos that depict a certain restless chaos in the city of Nikko that represents a piece of the universe at the "world's end", characterized by a style of building that resembles baroque...More »
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Hiroaki Ishii ''La porte de l'illusion''
Hiroaki Ishii's first solo show at Photo Gallery International showcases around 20 new works taken between 2006 and 2010. Shot in more than 150 locations in 16 countries, this series features a distinctive...More »
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Yoshinori Marui "Collecting Light"
The gentle, diffuse quality of the light that Marui captures in his work induces in us a sense of deja vu, ushering viewers into new, unfamiliar terrain. This particular light was inspired by his experience...More »
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Kozo Miyoshi "See Saw"
"See Saw" is a series of work taken with a 6x6 camera starting in 1978 that was exhibited at Miyoshi's second Japan solo show in 1983. On display at this exhibition are images that have not been previously...More »
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"Space" Exhibition
The themes for this exhibition are "space, place, the universe, blank space and freedom". The spaces depicted in these photographs seem to draw us into another different world beyond the "window" of the...More »
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Yoshiaki Kita "Primal Memento"
Kita began to think about “Primal Memento” when he was traveling around Latin America. In 1991, he fled from Japan as if he was afraid of being chased by an unknown entity. Kita crossed through Europe...More »
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Kikuji Kawada "World's End 2008-2010"
On display are around 30 works from Kikuji Kawada's series "World's End 2008-2010", featuring strange objects, heavy machinery and people that suddenly appear in the middle of our cities.More »
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"NASA: A Quarter Century of Space Exploration" Exhibition
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Yoshihiko Ito "Time"
20 new works created out of mosaics rearranged from torn prints taken using the technique of fixed-point observation that were pasted together.More »
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"Counting Cats" Exhibition
On view are around 60 photographs taken by various photographers that speak of their respective relationships with cats. [Image: Kikuji Kawada "Invisible City & Cat, Lebannon" (2006)]More »
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Kozo Miyoshi "Sakura"
Kozo Miyoshi is a representative Japanese photographer who has worked solely with a large format camera for over a quarter-century. Many of his works have won the hearts and minds of viewers, including...More »
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Naohisa Hara "Asia: Photographs of Taiwan"
Since the 1970s, Naohisa Hara has been traveling through Europe and capturing the relationships between nature and the cities in countries like France, Italy and Spain as his lifework. With his outstanding...More »
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Hiroji Kubota "U.S.A. 1963-69 and Burma 1970-78"
THe sole Japanese member of international photographer group "Magnum", Hiroji Kubota has done photo shoots in many countries. What prompted him to work in the international arena was his encounters with...More »
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Ryota Katsukura "Good Morning, Japan"
Motivated by his desire to know more about his home country, Katsukura has taken photographs that trace the culture and history of Japan. Not merely by nebulously looking things around him but rather...More »
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Noboru Takahashi "Under Current"
Somehow intrigued by the wall covered with stains standing on a familiar path, Takahashi stopped in front of it one time and observed it closely. What he found was a vertical splotch appearing from the...More »
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Jiro Fukasawa "In the Darkness"
Jiro Fukasawa presented his "In the Sky" series in 2004 at P.G.I.10 Days Exhibition, which introduced both young, up-and-coming photographers and more seasoned ones. On view in this exhibition is a series...More »
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Mamoru Sugiyama "Metamorphosis"
Directing his lens towards familiar objects and phenomena, Mamoru Sugiyama has been capturing ordinary things and everyday scenes. These works were first introduced in 2001 as a series entitled "Still...More »
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Yasuhiro Ishimoto "Composition"
Yasuhiro Ishimoto is a prominent photographer both in Japan and abroad. Among the wide variety of works he has created throughout his long career, he has produced a multi-exposure color photograph series...More »
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"Making, Marking, Mapping Vol.2" Exhibition
This is the 2nd installment in the series, which introduces promising young photographers in a group exhibition format. Since opening in 1979, Photo Gallery International has introduced photographic...More »
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30th Anniversary Exhibition
Since its opening in 1979, Photo Gallery International has introduced unique photographers from both Japan and abroad. For 30 years, the gallery has persisted in its efforts to introduce works of leading...More »
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Tomio Seike "Nude"
Tomio Seike is a Japanese photographer based in the UK. His work is known for its serene atmosphere and high print quality. This exhibition on the theme of nudes consists of two series: "TSIS Nude",...More »
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Kikuji Kawada "Memories of Faraway Places: Memoir 1951-1966"
Kikuji Kawada has been creating his own photographic world for more than 50 years, attracting attention both in Japan and abroad. A series of work from 2006 entitled "Invisible City" includes photographs...More »
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Michiko Kon "Platinum Print Collection"
Renowned photographer Michiko Kon first creates unique objects out of fish and vegetables, as well as flowers and insects, then photographs them and develops the images as gelatin silver prints. Various...More »
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Permanent Exhibition "Photographs of America Part II"
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Hayato Wakabayashi "Lunch on the Grass"
The artist tells his own stories as he wanders through his memories. During his childhood, he visited a greenhouse with his parents and grandparents. He traces episodes that centered on these visits and...More »
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Kazuyuki Soeno Exhibition
This series entitled "P.G.I. 10 Days Exhibition" showcases both up-and-coming and established photographers alongside their portfolio works, introducing unique creativity seen not only through themes but...More »
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"American Photography" Permanent Exhibition
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Yasuhiro Ishimoto "Tokyo"
Internationally renowned photographer Yasuhiro Ishimoto has taken a wide variety of photos in over half a century, and introduced them in the forms of photo books and exhibitions. Last year, a collection...More »
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Shintaro Sato "Tokyo Twilight Zone: Emergency Staircase Tokyo"
In the sprawling metropolis of Tokyo, houses, stores, housing complexes, old buildings and new high-rises are all crowded next to and on top of each other. The old and new coexist in this city. As the...More »
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Itaru Hirama "Min Tanaka - Locus Focus -"
Photographer Itaru Hirama has exhibited photographs of musicians, poetry-photographs (collaborative works with poets) and of people from his hometown Shiogama Town in Miyagi prefecture. Hirama was greatly...More »
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Yoshinori Marui "Along the Coastline – from Cape Kyan to Mabuni, Okinawa"
Yoshinori Marui has been walking in many places in Japan with a large format camera since around 2000 in an attempt to take a second look at his country "Japan" with his own eyes. Marui says, "This is...More »
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"Making, Marking, Mapping" Exhibition
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Kozo Miyoshi “Somewhere, Sometime”
Kozo Miyoshi is one of Japan's representative contemporary photographers. "Travels deliver my photographs", says Miyoshi. He drives his car all over the country and takes photographs of things that fascinate...More »
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Kiyoshi Yagi “Across the Arctic 1994-2007”
Since 1994 this artist has made several visits to the villages of the Eskimo and the Aleut living in the Arctic, beyond national borders. He takes photographs of the nature of the far north as well as...More »
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10 Days Exhibition vol.18 - Yuichiro Matsuda “Horse”
The P.G.I. 10 Days Exhibition series that introduces young and newcomer photographers reaches its 5th year this year. This exhibition is vol. 18 in the series. While travelling, Yuichiro Matsuda met...More »
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10 Days Exhibition vol. 17 - Kinumi Yabumoto “The Surface of Material World”
The word “texture” has a double meaning: “surface of skin” and “components that make up skin.” It seems that there is a difference in how one sees things depending on what one would like to mainly see...More »
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10 Days Exhibition vol.16 Arisa Kasai "San Franciscans"
This artist studied photography in San Francisco. She was attracted to the way in which San Franciscans establish their own identity as individuals, not by their race, nationality, sex, gender, or age,...More »
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Rie Suzuki "My Own Mute"
P.G. I. 10 Days Exhibition has been introducing works by emerging, as well as mid-career photographers with uniqueness in themes and techniques for the past five years. Featured artist for this exhibition,...More »
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Yasuhiro Ishimoto "Shibuya, Shibuya"
This world-famous Japanese photographer has been taking pictures of people on the street corners of Shibuya for the past few years. In 2002 he started photographing people waiting for the light to change,...More »
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Wynn Bullock Exhibition
Wynn Bullock is one of the representative photographers of the American West Coast. "Child in Forest," the prologue work of the legendary 1955 MoMA exhibition "The Family of Man", made a strong impression...More »
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Tomio Seike "Light on Dust -Glynde Forge-"
Tomio Seike is a Japanese photographer based in the UK, who has a reputation for the gentle and silent atmospheres of his photographs as well as beautiful, graceful prints. Photography collectors in Europe...More »
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Eikoh Hosoe "From Daguerreotype to Digital Pigment Prints"
Eikoh Hosoe is a representative contemporary Japanese photographer who is also famous overseas. His well-known works include "Man and Woman", "Bara-kei", "Embrace", "Kamaitachi", "Gaudi's Space" and "Luna...More »
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Eiichiro Sakata "Just Wait: Times Square 1966-70"
Eiichiro Sakata is active in the field of editorial photography and well known as a photographer of portraits for the front cover of major weekly magazines in Japan. A new wave of American photography...More »
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Kikuji Kawada "Invisible City"
"Invisible City" consists of works by Kikuji Kawada from 2001 to 2006, including the series "Eureka/ The Complete City - Phantom" from the 2003 exhibition "Kikuji Kawada: Theatrum Mundi", where the idea...More »
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Yoshihiko Ito "Puddles"
This is an exhibition of 20 gelatin silver prints from "Puddles", the third work in Yoshihiko Ito's "Patrone" series. After the works were photographed from a fixed point of view, the prints were torn...More »
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Hideyuki Saito "Right Place, Right Time"
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Ken Kitano "Our Face"
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Mamoru Sugiyama "Everyday Life"
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Yasuhiro Ishimoto "On The Beach"