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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Kota Kishi Exhibition Part 1
For a 15-year period from 2005 until 2020, Kota Kishi has photographed the neighborhoods of Kamagasaki in Osaka, San’ya in Tokyo, and Kotobukicho in Yokohama. This two-part exhibition documents the changes...More »
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Masako Matsui “Six Days in Vladivostok”
Masako Matsui has been exploring the commonalities of countries with different governments, religions, and cultures through the camera lens since the 1970s. These images come from six days in 2019 spent...More »
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Keizo Kitajima “Untitled Records vol.19”
The 19th exhibition in Keizo Kitajima’s “Untitled Records” series.More »
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Fumikiyo Nagamachi “Old Village – Bicycle”
Fumikiyo Nagamachi continues to photograph the people and places of Machida, Tokyo, where he lives. More »
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Keiko Sasaoka “Shoreline”
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Fumikiyo Nagamachi “Old Village – Little History II”
Fumikiyo Nagamachi continues to photograph the town of Machida, Tokyo, where he lives. This exhibition presents works featuring scenes from Machida. More »
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Kota Kishi “Kamagasaki Bonkure”
Photographs of festivals in the impoverished area of Kamagasaki, Osaka during the summer Bon season and the end of the year. Also, images of vendors on “Vietnam Street” along a fenced-off area of an American...More »
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Naonori Oshima “Play ▶”
These four small video works by Naonori Oshima use cigarette boxes as frames to capture images of landscapes and sounds of the city. More »
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Naoki Oji “Tokara, Kawasaki”
*We will be reopening from Saturday, June 6 due to the lifting of the state of emergency. Naoki Oji’s photography captures people, plants, animals, signs, buildings, and other features of places with...More »
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Keizo Kitajima “Untitled Records Vol. 18”
This exhibition features photos taken in Minami Sanriku in the aftermath of the 2011 earthquake. More »
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Akifumi Tanaka “Cityscape 21”
Akifumi Tanaka’s work has focused on the contrasting themes of his hometown Chichibu and urban life. This exhibition focuses on his photography capturing urban life.More »
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Kazuyuki Kawaguchi “Prospects Vol. 4”
The fourth exhibition of works from Kazuyuki Kawaguchi’s “Prospects” series. These photographs capture the area along the railway lines of the Kanto region, recording scenes from the daily lives and labor...More »
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Keiko Sasaoka “Park City”
New and recent works from 2017 onward feature slow shutter speeds and negative/positive transpositions in images that make tourists in Hiroshima city parks appear to lose distinctive facial characteristics,...More »
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Tomonori Ryu “Erimo-cho”
Tomonori Ryu has been photographing Iwate, Miyagi, and Fukushima Prefectures since the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011, recalling what these places looked like before the disaster while photographing...More »
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Keizo Kitajima “Untitled Records vol.17”
The 17th exhibition in Keizo Kitajima’s “Untitled Records” series.More »
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Naonori Oshima “Play ▷Ⅱ”
The second part in Naonori Oshima’s “Play ▷” documenting his own artwork and the conversations and arguments of friends. The images on screen become interchanged and sometimes warped or superimposed with...More »
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Mariko Takahashi “Souvenir”
Until now Mariko Takahashi’s work has focused on subjects such as her mother and others close to her, dolls, plants, and taxidermy photographed in indoor light, images of food in extreme colors, or doll...More »
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Kota Kishi “Kamagasaki Bonkure”
Kota Kishi has been photographing the derelict neighborhoods of Sanya in Tokyo, Kotobuki-cho in Yokohama, and Kamagasaki in Osaka since 2005. He has printed these series (“Mono, Shimiru,” The Books With...More »
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Fumikiyo Nagamachi “Old Village – Haramachida”
Fumikiyo Nagamachi continues to photograph the scenes and people of his Tokyo neighborhood of Machida. Here he presents images of people coming and going around the town. More »
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Hitomi Takahashi “Go Straight, Make a Right at That Corner”
For her exhibition with the same title last February, Hitomi Takahashi presented photographs of women of her own generation whom she encountered while walking around the Tokyo areas of Shibuya, Harajuku,...More »
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Takuro Yoneda “Stone Country”
Images from rock hunting in the Kofu basin.More »
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Keizo Kitajima “Untitled Records Vol. 16”
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Keiko Sasaoka “Shoreline”
Exhibiting Keiko Sasaoka’s 2018 work with a focus on her photographs of Fukushima. These images not only capture the transforming landscape of places such as Iitatemura – once called the most beautiful...More »
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Kota Kishi “Bananas, Just Like That”
Since 2005, Kota Kishi has been photographing the slum neighborhoods of Yamatani, Tokyo, Kotobuki-cho, Yokohama, and Kamagasaki, Osaka. Kishi directly transfers these images to printing paper, newsprint,...More »
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Masashi Otomo “Mourai”
Otomo is dedicated to photographing his homeland of Hokkaido- both its landscapes and his family. In 2010, over the course of a year, he exhibited a series of landscapes and portraits of his mother and...More »
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Naonori Oshima “Play ▷”
Presenting video installations comprised of scenes, sounds, and drawings from Oshima’s daily surroundings. More »
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Fumikiyo Nagamachi “Old Village”
Fumikiyo Nagamachi photographs the scenery and people of the Tokyo suburb of Machiya. These images feature the Tamakyuryo area extending from Machiya.More »
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Kazuyuki Kawaguchi “Prospects Vol. 3”
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Naonori Oshima “Imagination O”
In recent years Naonori Oshima’s practice has involved using materials such as his own photographs, magazine cutouts, electronics, cardboard, and other materials at hand in paintings and collages. His...More »
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Keizo Kitajima “Untitled Records Vol. 15”
The fifteenth exhibition in the Untitled Records series.More »
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Nana Kakuda “Consciousness”
Presenting works by both Nana Kakuta and the Saga Prefecture-born photographer Naonori Oshima. Since 2006 Kakuta has been photographing her own mother in works that focus on the lives of women. Kukuta’s...More »
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Nana Kakuda “With My Mother and Aunt”
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Naonori Oshima “Atelier O”
Since his debut in 2011, Naonori Oshima has photographed scenes of urban life and his friends. In recent years he has created collages from photo cut-outs combined with magazine pages that he paints over...More »
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Keiko Sasaoka “Shoreline”
Twelve inkjet prints from Keiko Sasaoka’s series Shoreline photographing extensive embankment construction along the Iwate and Miyagi Prefecture coastlines following the Great East Japan Earthquake of...More »
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Takuro Yoshikai “Phantom”
This is the first solo exhibition for Takuro Yoshikai, whose encounters with photography are strongly influenced by Takuma Nakahira’s straightforward images and concept of photography as action. Yoshikai...More »
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Tomonori Ryu “Satisfactory Days”
After the exhibit “On the Road 2002” Tomonori Ryu would leave Tokyo and return to his hometown of Fukuoka. In 2017, he used “Quotidian”, his first exhibit in 15 years, as an opportunity to reflect on his...More »
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Takuro Yoneda “Stone Country”
During the summer months, the Fuefuki River flowing through the mountain-surrounded Kofu Basin changes course dramatically, bringing stones of all sizes along with it. In winter these stones take various...More »
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Keizo Kitajima Exhibition
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Naonori Oshima “Rhapsody O”
Since his first exhibition in 2011, Naonori Oshima has been presenting photographic works of everyday scenes including friends and urban landscapes. Recently, he has been changing his form of expression...More »
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Shuji Akagi “Fukushima Traces, 2017”
Since the earthquake in 2011 in eastern Japan, high school art teacher Shuji Akagi has continued to post photos on Twitter of areas contaminated by radiation and the ongoing decontamination efforts and...More »
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Hitomi Takahashi “Go Straight and Turn Right”
Hitomi Takahashi traveled to Tokyo from the city of Izumo in Shimane prefecture, south Japan in April 2016, spending most of her time walking around areas such as Shibuya, Harajuku and Shinjuku and shooting...More »
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Keizo Kitajima “Untitled Records Vol. 13”
Exhibiting works by Keizo Kitajima, a photographer who takes a special interest in global events such as the post-Soviet era, globalism, popularism, Shock Doctrine, and the Fukushima nuclear disaster....More »
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Keiko Sasaoka “Shoreline”
Presenting a selection of photographs shot from a fixed point in the town of Naraha, located on along the main coastal road in Fukushima Prefecture, from 2012 to 2017. This town suffered damage not only...More »
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Yuki Kasama “When Clouds Go Over Mountains They Transform into Air Currents”
Eight new black and white works taken with a large-format camera at an altitude of 4800 meters in the Andes Mountains. Kasama’s ethereal images seem to capture the wind. More »
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Noboru Hama “Vacant Land 1989”
Around 1989, Noboru Hama spent three years documenting vacant lots in Kanda, Yotsuya, and Shinjuku that had opened up as a result of land reclamation and redevelopment. 953 of these images were then published...More »
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Kazuyuki Kawaguchi “Prospects Vol. 2”
The second exhibition of works from Kazuyuki Kawaguchi’s “Prospects” series. These photographs capture the area between the Kinki region and Kyushu, which once flourished but have gradually fallen into...More »
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Keizo Kitajima “Untitled Records Vol. 12”
Exhibiting works by Keizo Kitajima, a photographer who takes a special interest in global events such as the post-Soviet era, globalism, popularism, and the shock doctrine. [Event] Workshop Date:...More »
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Kazumoto Tashiro “Ulleungdo”
Kazumoto Tashiro’s “Tsubaki no Machi” (Camellia Town) series photographs northern Kyushu, including his hometown of Fukuoka, and southern South Korea. Like falling camellia petals, these images feature...More »
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Keiko Sasaoka “Park City”
Keiko Sasaoka’s “Park City” (Inscript, 2009) is a collection of photography taken in and around Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park between 2001 and 2009. Ten ink jet prints are on display. More »
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Kazuyuki Kawaguchi Exhibition
Presenting 20 works each from photographer Kazuyuki Kawaguchi’s series “Prospectus” and “Okinawa Genshiko+” (Okinawa Illusions+).More »
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Kota Kishi Exhibition
Presenting works from Kishi’s “Gareki House Iejima” and “Vietnam Dori no” series.More »
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Tomonori Ryu “Quotidian”
Tomonori Ryu left Tokyo to return to his hometown of Fukuoka following the exhibition he held at Photographers’ Gallery in 2002, titled “On The Road 2002.” In recent years he has shot projects in the Tohoku...More »
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Yoshihiko Saito “Orchard”
Yoshihiko Saito’s photographs explore relationships of self and place and the interchangeable yet unchanging scenery of Tokyo’s suburbs. More »
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Keizo Kitajima “Untitled Records Vol. 11”
Untitled Records is a new series of photographic booklets conceived by Keizo Kitajima, which will compose a collection of more than twenty issues, published four times per year. This kind of project is...More »
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Naohiro Oshima “Blurred Colors”
Since his first solo exhibition in 2011, Naohiro Oshima has been photographing intimate portraits of friends and urban landscapes. His works blend color with black and white; they can be blurred or sharply...More »
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Kota Kishi “Joshua Tree”
Presenting Koto Kishi’s photographs from Joshua Tree National Park in the Mohave Desert of southern California. The Joshua Tree gets its name from its gnarled but sturdy, outstretched branches that reminded...More »
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Nana Kakuda “My mother and that time”
Nana Kakuda issued her “APG bulletin” from Asia Photographer’s Gallery, a gallery run by a group of photographers in Fukuoka City from 2006 to 2011. To celebrate the release of her 50th and final bulletin,...More »
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Keizo Kitajima “Untitled Records Vol. 10”
Keizo Kitajima’s “Untitled Records” series depicting earthquake and nuclear accident-struck areas of Tohoku reflect his sense of reality seeming to change shape before his eyes. These images revised, re-interpreted,...More »
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Keiko Sasaoka “Shoreline”
Keiko Sasaoka presents capturing the sea of Kashima in Ibaraki Prefecture and the sand dunes of Tottori Prefecture. Since the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011 Keiko Sasaoka has confronted through photography...More »
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Yuki Kasama “Climate”
Ten new photographs of the western edge of the Himalayas by Yuki Kasama.More »
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Keizo Kitajima “Untitled Records Vol. 9”
Keizo Kitajima continues the ongoing exhibition series “Untitled Records” into its 9th volume. With the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the rise of neo-liberalism and free market globalization, combined...More »
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Akira Mitamura “Hiroshima Element”
Akira Mitamura’s Hiroshima Element presents snapshots of life in the city of Hiroshima. More »
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Fumikiyo Nagamachi “White Album”
Fumikiyo Nagamachi used to take snapshots of people on the street with a large-format camera, but has begun using a hand-held. He recently held an exhibition of images from his hometown of Takaishi, Osaka,...More »
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Tomonori Ryu “The Favors in Hama-dori After The Rain”
Exhibiting 20 inkjet photographs of the Hama-dori seaside area, Minami Soma, and the Futaba district in Fukushima Prefecture from Tomonori Ryu’s “Nihon Higashi Kaigan” (The East Japan Coast), a recently...More »
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Asako Narahashi “Coming Closer and Getting Further Away: 1985/2015 Case of Vietnam”
Exhibiting Asako Narahashi’s black and white photography from three trips to Vietnam since mid-1980s, as well as color images from her first visit to Ho Chi Minh in 30 years. The adjacent Kula Photo Gallery...More »
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Keiko Sasaoka “Shoreline”
New works by Keiko Sasaoka capturing the mountains and shores of Shizuoka Prefecture.More »
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Keizo Kitajima “Untitled Records Vol. 8”
Keizo Kitajima continues the ongoing exhibition series “Untitled Records” into its 8th volume. With the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the rise of neo-liberalism and free market globalization, combined...More »
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Naonori Oshima “Festering Views”
Since his first solo exhibition in 2011, Naonori Oshima has continued to make his friends and familiar urban scenes the subjects of his work. Taking both color and black and white photographs with sharp...More »
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Kota Kishi “Hinata, Kanata”
New photographs of the Kamagasaki area of Osaka. 25 gelatin silver prints.More »
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Fumikiyo Nagamachi “White Album”
Fumikiyo Nagamachi has focused his practice upon street snapshots taken with a large format camera. On this occasion he reverts to a hand camera and turns his lens to Takaishi city, Osaka, where he lived...More »
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Keizo Kitajima “Untitled Records Vol. 7”
This is the seventh “Untitled Records” exhibition. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, neo-liberalism has come to rear its head combined with an ever-increasing individualism, economic globalization,...More »
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Yuki Kasama “Metaphors”
A showcase of new photography works depicting Gassan (Moon Mountain) of Yamagata and the “Moonland” district of Lamayuru, Ladakh. Both regions are named after the moon due to their desolate surfaces, being...More »
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Kazuyuki Kawaguchi + Tsunetoshi Osafune “To Okinawa”
Photography by Kazuyuki Kawauchi and film by Tsunetoshi Osafune, both of whom documented Okinawa in the 1970s. [Related Event] Talk Speakers: Kazuyuki Kawauchi, Noboru Hama (photographer), Masakazu...More »
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Keiko Sasaoka “Shoreline”
Ever since April 2011, Keiko Sasaoka has photographed the disaster hit area of Rikuzen and Abukuma. Here she presents new work of Kasumigaura, Ibaraki. More »
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Keizo Kitajima “Untitled Records Vol. 6”
Keizo Kitajima’s photography series “Untitled Records” reflects the perspective of our current age, in which it is difficult to discern between the pressing realities before our eyes and the overwhelming...More »
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Tazuko Masuyama “After the End”
After the success of the solo show of work of Taduko Masuyama curated by Masashi Kohara at the Izu Photo Museum in 2013, a reworking of this exhibition is featured here with prints and projection. More »
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Naonori Oshima Exhibition
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Keiko Sasaoka “Shoreline”
As progress continues to be made in the restoration of Tohoku after the great earthquake and tsunami, Keiko Sasaoka has continued her pursuit of the edge at which water and land meet, the shoreline. Here...More »
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Keijo Kitajima “Untitled Records Vol. 5”
Since the collapse of the soviet union in 1991 neo-liberalism has come to rear its head combined with an ever increasing individualism, economic globalization, expansion of computer networks and supply...More »
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Nana Kakuda “Family Time”
Opening opportunities to reassess our fixed notions of “family” through Kakuda’s portraits of her mother, father and grandfather, revealing the individual, highly personal time of close relations.More »
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Naonori Oshima
Until now Naonori Oshima has produced photographs and paintings as separate works, but for this exhibition he presents photographs painted with acrylics. Colorful and detailed mosaics painted onto portraits,...More »
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Tomonori Ryu “Japan’s East Coast”
In April 2014, photographer Tomonori Ryu travelled to the Tohoku region stricken by the March 2011 earthquake. Ryu, who had travelled extensively in Tohoku before the disaster, was filled with memories...More »
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Keizo Kitajima “Untitled Records Vol. 4”
With the fall of the Soviet in 1991, the rise of neo-liberalism, the globalization of the free economy, the spread of computer networks and the supply chain, combined with shock doctrines in the advancement...More »
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Saki Nakamura “Flower”
“Flower” is the latest work in the ongoing photographic series in which Saki Nakamura approaches the motif of the flower from a whole manner of perspectives and positions, revealing a new form to this...More »
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Keiko Sasaoka “Park City”
Between 2001-2009 Keiko Sasaoka created a series of work shot around the Peace Memorial Park of Hiroshima and released these as a photo book under the title of “Park City”. Since this time she has returned...More »
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Naonori Oshima “Sympathy”
Naonori Oshima photographs close friends, the places around where he lives, cityscapes, and other familiar subjects. Tracing the gradual evolution of his style, this exhibition presents his extensive body...More »
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Keizo Kitajima “Untitled Records Vol. 3”
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, neo-liberalism has come to rear its head combined with an ever-increasing individualism, economic globalization, expansion of computer networks and supply...More »
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Takuro Yoneda “A River”
Takuro Yoneda follows the Abukama river which flows through Fukushima prefecture, capturing its currents through Fukushima city and the Date district, observing the blooms of Summer.More »
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Nana Kakuda “Young Mango— Blown By A Vietnamese Wind”
Presenting photography from Vietnam, a popular travel destination for young people in recent years. Nana Kakuda traversed the country by bus, from Hanoi in the north to Da Nang in central Vietnam to Ho...More »
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Keizo Kitajima “Untitled Records Vol. 2”
Since the collapse of the soviet union in 1991 neo-liberalism has come to rear its head combined with an ever increasing individualism, economic globalization, expansion of computer networks and supply...More »
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Kota Kishi ”An Approach to Things”
The virtual image of the photograph and their physical subject come to meet across two gallery spaces in an exhibition of prints depicting empty cans of Japanese sweets, abandoned paperweight boxes, and...More »
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Naonori Oshima “On Harmonic Balance”
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Takuro Yoneda “Fuefuki Channels”
Displaying some 15 works of ink jet-printed photography. More »
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Keizo Kitazima “Untitled Records Vol. 1”
In “Untitled Records” Keizo Kitazima unveils his attempts to capture the age as a visual document, with a selection of large scale color photographs. More »
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Keiko Sasaoka “Century of the Shore”
In the aftermath of 3.11 Keiko Sasaoka took up her camera and began to document the scenes of the Sanriku coastal district and Abukuma, here gathering her collection of photographs into a projected slideshow....More »
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Hiromi Tsuchida “Fukushima 2”
Hiromi Tsuchida presents two moving image works capturing with a penetrating eye the current state of Fukushima and the burden of the nuclear disaster.More »
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Saki Nakamura “Flower”
Flowers and plants are vividly depicted as if floating in space, suspended before a black background and caught with clarity of a strobe light.More »
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Kota Kishi “Rubbish and Photography”
Kota Kishi presents an exhibition of work over two venue’s with his recent “Barracks” work featured at Kula Photo Gallery, while the Photographers’ Gallery is host to an open studio in his production of...More »
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Keiko Sasaoka “Difference 3.11”
Keiko Sasaoka has been documenting the villages of Sanriku and Abukuma since the events of 3.11 and here presents a series of photographs taken since August 2013 around the coastal areas of Iwate, Miyagi...More »
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Kazutomo Tashiro “Hamayuri 2013 Spring”
Kazutomo Tashiro features his body of work engaging the disaster areas of 3.11, documenting the regeneration process and continuing challenges which people face here over the changing seasons. In the Spring...More »
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Hiroko Komatsu “As good be hanged for a sheep as a lamb”
A total of 700 photographs of western and southern Tokyo’s industrial areas. Venues: Photographers’ Gallery, Kula Photo GalleryMore »
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Naonori Oshima “O.N. Affect Memory”
Presenting 50 ink jet print works (446mm×320mm).More »
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Yuichiro Tanaka “Atlas Black”
Yuichiro Tanaka has been shooting and publishing photos of cities since the second half of the 1990s. Brimming with the eclectic mix of images that make up the urban environment, his works are accumulated...More »
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Osamu Kanemura “Hindenburg Omen”
In an exhibition of photography and moving image across two sites, Photographer’s Gallery and Kula Photo Gallery Osamu Kanemura presents a new body of work, revealing a different slant to his practice. Photographer’s...More »
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Keiko Sasaoka “Difference 3.11”
Since April 2011 Keiko Sasaoka has undertaken to photograph the villages around the Abukuma and Sanriku coastal areas which were badly hit by the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami. In this exhibition...More »
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Saki Nakamura “Flower”
The “Flower” series is Saki Nakamura’s the first attempt at the motif. On display are photographs of cut flowers and bulbs. Until now Nakamura has mainly photographed male nudes, but was inspired to reexamine...More »
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Wataru Yamamoto “Drawing a Line”
Work selected from the photo book of Wataru Yamamoto “Drawing a Line” released in November 2012 by publishing platform MCV MCV, directed by Dan Abbe. [Image: Wataru Yamamoto] [Related Event] Artist...More »
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Kazutomo Tashiro “When hamayuris are in bloom: 2012 winter"
Since 15th April 2011 Kazutomo Tashiro has continued to move around the coasts and inner cities of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima joining talking with local people and photographing the scenes he encounters....More »
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Keizo Kitajima "USSR 1991/A.D. 1991"
An exhibition held in conjunction with the publication of the photo collection "USSR 1991" released in November 2012 by Little Big Man publishers, USA. This exhibition presents a selection of 30 prints...More »
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Kumi Yokoyu "Time Indoors Outdoors"
Photographs of the artist's grandmother and her era. There is a satellite event at the Kula photo gallery. [Image: Kumi Yokoyu, "Time Indoors Outdoors"]More »
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Kota Kishi "Things in there"
Features around 100 photographs taken of "things" along the Iwate coast. [Image: Kota Kishi]More »
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Kazutomo Tashiro Exhibition
Photos taken by the artist during trips to coastal towns in Iwate, Miyagi, and Fukushima prefectures. [Image: Kazutomo Tashiro]More »
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Naonori Oshima “O/N COMPLEX SYSTEM”
On display are 50 new works that document the lives of his sister and her husband in a suburb of Manila.More »
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Asako Narahashi Exhibition
[Image: Asako Narahashi]More »
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Osamu Kanemura “Howling Smack Wolf”
[Image: Osamu Kanemura]More »
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Keiko Sasaoka "Volcano"
On display are works from Sasaoka's newest landscape series that were taken while walking along the coasts and mountain ridges of Japan – an endeavor that was strongly influenced by the weather at the...More »
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Saki Nakamura "The Boy"
This exhibition, held to mark the release of Nakamura's new photo book, features portraits and works from a nude series.More »
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Hiroko Komatsu Exhibition
On display are 400 works depicting the western and southern industrial districts of Tokyo.More »
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Kazutomo Tashiro "When hamayuris are in bloom: Summer 2012"
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Keiko Sasaoka "Difference 3.11"
This exhibition features photos of evacuation zones in the wake of the March 11 2011 earthquake that convey the ongoing situation in the area.More »
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Saki Nakamura "ephemera"
This exhibition showcases pieces from Saki Nakamura's newest series of male nudes, featuring models reclining on beds and sofas, in the dim light of dusk.More »
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Keiko Sasaoka "True View of Kuma-yama"
Features the photographer's record of the Kuma satoyama mountain highland scenery, creating from 2008 to 2009. [Image: Keiko Sasaoka “Kuma Diptychs” (2009) C print 50x50cm. Courtesy of Kuma Museum of...More »
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Kenzo Tamoto "Hakodate Seaport: The Record of Water Supply Works"
An encore exhibition of the exhibition held at the gallery back in May 2009.More »
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Kota Kishi "Kamagasaki"
Kota Kishi's previous work consisted of images of urban areas in Tokyo, Yokohama and Osaka. This exhibition is made up exclusively of photos of Kamagasaki in Osaka, a slum area densely populated with day...More »
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Mao Ishikawa "Port Town Elegy"
Photos depicting the honest, straightforward lives of men and laborers in port towns.More »
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Saki Nakamura "The Nude of Man"
New works from Nakamura's series of male nudes, taken in dimly lit rooms and faint light, tracing the delicate outlines of the male body. [Image: Saki Nakamura, "The Nude of Man" (2011)]More »
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Yutaka Takanashi "Towards 'Last Seen'"
Features new works taken from bus or train windows.More »
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Osamu Kanemura "Alice In Butcher Land"
Workshop by Kanemura: November 12th (Sat) 13:00-17:00 ¥3000, capacity: 15 Talk by Kanemura: November 12th (Sat) 19:00- ¥1000, capacity: 25More »
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Kazutomo Tashiro "Camellia Town"
On display are photos that depict Kyushu and the Korean peninsula not as two countries separated from each other by an ocean strait, but rather as two land masses that are connected by it.More »
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Masashi Otomo "Grace Islands"
On display are photos of two formerly uninhabited islands situated 360km east of the main island of Okinawa that were subsequently developed into sugarcane plantations. Slideshow and talk: September...More »
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Naoki Ohji "Naha, Kawasaki"
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Masashi Otomo "Sakhalin"
Masashi Otomo is a photographer working with the landscapes surround his hometown of Kitahiroshima in Hokkaido, as well as his family. His 2010 show "Mourai" featured a series of portraits of relatives...More »
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Sakiko Nomura "4/REQUIEM"
Two exhibitions featuring the work of photographer Sakiko Nomura will be held simultaneously. Following the unexpected death of one of her male models, someone whom she had been photographing from the...More »
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Naonori Oshima "Photography - No. 1"
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Mariko Takahashi "Night Birds"
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Naoki Oji "Kawasaki"
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Saki Nakamura "Bedroom"
10 gelatin silver prints that illustrate Nakamura's desire for and attachment to the male sex, while simultaneously acknowledging them as an absolute "other".More »
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Sakiko Nomura Exhibition
Nomura's photographs are filled with a haunting beauty that never fails to draw the viewer in. Her work has remained faithful to the same style since the very early stages of her career.More »
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Masashi Otomo "Mourai 11"
Exhibition by Masashi Otomo, showcasing photos that depict landscapes in and around Kita-Hiroshima in Hokkaido, where he grew up.More »
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Keiko Sasaoka "Cape"
Features Sasaoka's most recent works from her Landscape series that depict places like Jogashima Awazaki on the Miura peninsula and Nojimazaki on the Boso peninsula.More »
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Kazutomo Tashiro "Camellia Town"
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Naoki Oji "Kawasaki"
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Masashi Otomo "Mourai 7"
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Shigeru Matsui "Acousmatic"
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Sakiko Nomura Exhibition
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Takuro Yoneda "Lost & Found"
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Osamu Wataya "Drowning in Flame"
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Kumi Yokoyu "Snow Dharma 2010"
Solo exhibition by Kumi Yokoyu, an artist who has previously worked intensively with photography as a medium. Featured here are acrylic landscapes of "dead snowmen" melting away as spring approaches.More »
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Keizo Kitajima "Places"
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Mariko Takahashi "Moonlight 4: Male Shadow"
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Sakiko Nomura Exhibition
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Lim Yong Kyun "Disappearing Iceberg: Antarctica 2008"
Works by photographer Lim Yong Kyun, who is based in Korea.More »
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Saki Nakamura "To Touch"
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Mariko Takahashi "Moonlight 3: The Taxidermic"
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Naoki Oji Exhibition
On view are photographs depicting the Pacific side of the Boso Peninsula, where a lot of touristy spots and leisure facilities have been built. Rather than attempting to beautifully capture popular places...More »
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Shigeru Matsui "Replay"
On view are "poems" based on media technologies (reproduction devices). This is an attempt to reexamine contemporary poetry from the viewpoint of technological media and social structures in an analytic...More »
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Kota Kishi Exhibition
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Kenzo Tamoto "Hakodate Seaport: The Record of Water Supply Works"
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Mariko Takahashi "Moonlight 2 -Red Flowers"
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Kazuhiko Ueda + Kyoichi Nagase "Paint/ Note Real Link"
Art Talk "Brushstroke, Image, Body" by Kazuhiko Ueda + Kyoichi Nagase Date & Time: April 4th (Sat) 18:00- [Image: Kyoichi Nagase]More »
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Kazutomo Tashiro "Hijack"
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Mariko Takahashi "Moonlight 1. Doll"
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Shigeru Matsui "Camouflage"
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Naoki Oji Exhibition
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Masashi Otomo "Northern Lights 3 Daitojima Island"
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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...More »
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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...More »
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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...More »
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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...More »
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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...More »
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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...More »
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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...More »
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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...More »
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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"...More »
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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.More »
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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....More »
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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,...More »
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Takuro Yoneda "Exaggeration Etiquette"
Approximately 10 inkjet print works will be on display.More »
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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...More »
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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...More »
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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"...More »
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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....More »
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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...More »
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Huang Yongki + Mizota Kiichi Exhibition
This exhibition will be held at the Photographers' Gallery and Ikazuchi, across the hall.More »
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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...More »
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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,...More »
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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...More »
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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...More »
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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,...More »
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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....More »
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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...More »
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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...More »
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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,...More »
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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'...More »
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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...More »
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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...More »
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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...More »
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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:...More »
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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...More »
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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...More »
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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...More »
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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,...More »
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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...More »
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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...More »
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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...More »
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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...More »
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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...More »
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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...More »
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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,...More »
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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...More »
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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.More »
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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. More »
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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...More »
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Naoki Oji "Seoul"
Photography works by Naoki Oji.More »
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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"