Osaka Nikon Salon - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Osaka Nikon Salon. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Hiromi Tsuchida "Hiromi Tsuchida's Japan"
The 27th Ken Domon Award recipient's work was part of the exhibition that took place December 2007 to February 2008 at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. The show comprehensively introduced (...)
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"I Love People!" Exhibition
This is the first group exhibition from the Nikkoru Club Hanshin Branch. Each member differs in character and will display works that reach for a deep humanity, in order to express the theme "I love people!". (...)
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Kenshichi Hirashiki "The Goat's Lung: Okinawa 1968-2005"
This exhibition is composed of works from 1968-2005: the silently working, unknown magnanimous people of "Career Woman", "Beach Folk" and "Doll for the Okinawa War Dead". The "goat's lung" of the title (...)
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"150 Photographers' One Tsubo" Exhibition
Every year June 1st is "Photography Day", with the aim of promoting and diffusing photographic culture, and, based around this event, "Photography Month" will be held in Osaka and Tokyo. "Osaka Photography (...)
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"Twelve Worlds" Exhibition
The Nikon D3 goes beyond the imagination in terms of performance and since its launch has been garnered attention from many professional photographers. This exhibition will show works taken with the D3 (...)
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Hatsumi Matsushita Exhibition
Japanese university students, when they reach their third year, begin their hunt for work. For the artist this gives her a feeling of unease and discomfort, confronted by the spectacle of funereal, studio-shot (...)
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Daisuke Ozaki "Can Photos Record My Memories?"
The works in this exhibition are photographs taken over the course of a year of the disabled and healthy members of London-based AMICI dance theatre company. *Exhibiting at bis
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Kazuhiro Shimada "Empty View"
It is said that the Notsuke peninsula, Japan's largest land spit, where these photographs were taken, will vanish in one hundred years' time. There is scarcely a day when the words "global warming" don't (...)
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Makoto Kawai "Bevel"
*Exhibiting at bis
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2007 TopEye Magazine Photo Photo Salon Awards Exhibition
Nikon publishes the "Top Eye" magazine in the aim of raising awareness of photography amongst high school and junior high school students, and since 1979 until the present has sent the magazine free of (...)
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Masafumi Uchino "From a Train Window"
"Leaving for a journey. The destination of this journey is fixed, however this is not only the "journey" of going to the destination, but also the "process" of arriving there. The landscapes pile up layer (...)
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"Ihei Kimura's Paris" Exhibition
This exhibition is of the photographs taken by Ihei Kimura with a Nikon S and Leica M3 during his two highly productive trips to Paris in 1954 and 1955. In addition to monochrome film he also employed (...)
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Noriyuki Uechi "Portrait of Shinsekai"
Osaka's Shinsekai was a major bustling shopping district, the remains of which are still in fair condition, and the sense of Asia is still flowing through the streets. This exhibition, continuing from (...)
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Hayato Wakabayashi "Luncheon on the Grass"
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Yukiko Hoshimoto "Sutorigoi"
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Nae Mikuni "Midday Moon"
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Hiroshi Osaka "Tree Spirits"
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Nobuo Shimose "Kekkai 6"
"Kekkai" ("Sanctuary") is the cumulative life work of Shimose stretching over ten years, and this is the sixth photography exhibit in the series. The subjects of the photographs are mostly familiar natural (...)
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Taeko Ara "Square root of 1"
These works are the continuation of the artist's photograph exhibition "Muna Kami (God of Breasts) - From the Day I Got Breast Cancer." After she became sick, the artist had difficulty finding a way to (...)
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Katsuo Koizumi Exhibition
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Kaori Inbe Exhibition
In this exhibition photographer Kaori Inbe presents works that show her love for the complexity of people, with things from their past they never speak about, the dark sides of their personalities, and (...)
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Yasuo Habuta Exhibition
Yasuo Habuta's mother suddenly died of cancer, and after that he had a troubled marriage. For some diversion, he dusted off his camera, and went out to take pictures. Without thinking of what he wanted (...)
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Yasushi Nishimura Exhibition
Before going out, the process of applying make up, and changing from pajamas to work clothes heightens her energy level. Through the artist's eyes, this process seemed like a ritual that prepared the female (...)
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Taku Aramasa "Aramasa Sakura"
Photography Seminar: March 27th (Thu) 18:00-19:00
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Chiari Endo "Under The Sky: Columbia, South America"
This photographer went to Colombia's second largest city Medizin, in 2004 to visit a friend. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' guide on traveling abroad, the country was designated as a dangerous (...)
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Nihon Camera Nature and Landscape Photo Competition 2007
This contest is the 8th annual 'Nature and Landscapes Photo Contest' held by 'Japan Camera', a monthly magazine.
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2007 Nihon Camera Photo Competition Exhibition
This contest is held each month by Japan Camera, which was established in 1951. A famous photographer acts as the judge for a year and announces the winners in each magazine, and calculates the points (...)
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55th Nikkor Photo Contest Exhibition Part 2: Color, Part 3: Nature Exhibition
This exhibition will display all of the awarded works from the 55th Nikkor Photo Contest. Nikkor Photo Contest aims for the development of photography as art, the betterment of photography technology, (...)
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55th Nikkor Photo Contest Exhibition Part 1:Monochrome, Part 4: Digital Imaging
This exhibition will display all awarded works from the 55th Nikkor Photo Contest. Nikkor Photo Contest aims for the development of photography as art, the betterment of photographic technology, and the (...)
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Miyuki Motoki "Knots of Breath"
The artist has been photographing a Hokkaido farm family for many years, making the switch in equipment from chemical camera to a high-mobility digital camera along the way. The family's daily life neither (...)
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Eun-Kyung Shin "Wedding Hall"
Marriage is a social construction that creates a husband and wife. Although weddings are supposed to be a "pure" ritual, in Korea, the artist feels that there have been a surge of pseudo European-style (...)
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Yasuto Inamiya "Shape of the Nation - Highway Landscapes of Japan"
There are 8,920km of completed highways in Japan, and 15,000km when those under construction and currently in the planning stages are included. This artist traveled through Japan from 2005 to 2007 to photograph (...)
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Keizo Katajima "USSR 1991"
The exhibition features photographs taken intermittently during the artist's 150 day stay in the Soviet Union when it collapsed in 1991. When the artist first visited the country, he had no idea that it (...)
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Japan-Korea High School Students Photography Exchange Program Exhibition
This exhibition features 30 color and 10 monochrome photographs taken by Japanese and Korean high school students. This is the students exchange program between Japan (Matsue-shi, Sakaiminato-shi, Kurayoshi-shi) (...)
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Hiroshi Suga "Amami, Living in the Island"
For sixty years after World War II, Japan went through a period of growth and chaos. With the rapid economical development in the 1980s, everyone had thought that Japan had finally become a chief player (...)
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Chima Hotozuka "Purkinje"
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Kaori Yoshihara "Capsule Apartment"
Capsule apartments comprise a 2.5 square meter private room and common area. This artist lived in a capsule apartment for over one and a half years and continued to photograph fellow residents even after (...)
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Jiro Nomura "One Day"
The photographer loved places that were less traveled. Seeking out such places, he went for walks along the Tamagawa River and the mountains around Okumusashi, taking pictures along the way. He photographed (...)
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Kanako Hamaguchi "Message from 2 Hours Time Difference"
Kanako Hamaguchi started having questions and complex feelings about religion when her grandfather passed away three years ago. Thinking that she could find some answers in Thailand, a country that holds (...)
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Masato Seto "Binran"
In Taiwan, Southeast Asia and islands in the South Pacific, chewing betel palms is a custom similar to chewing tobacco. The artist has been interested in the women who sell these items (called Binran in (...)
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2007 Western Japan Yomiuri Photography Club Selected Works Exhibition
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Hitomi Watanabe "Seasons of the Student Movement 1968-69"
The year of 1968 was eventful with the Vietnam War, assassination of Martin Luther King. Jr and Robert Kennedy, the outbreak of the Paris revolution and the arrival of Apollo to the Moon. Meanwhile, Watanabe (...)
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Shinichiro Kobayashi "Last Factory"
Since the intensive change of Tokyo bay area in the 1980's, Shinichiro Kobayashi has traveled to ruins all over Japan and directed the lens to ongoing construction sites. Mines and factories are the witnesses (...)
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2007 All Japan Photographic Exhibition
The theme for this year's 35th "All Japan Photographic Exhibition 2007" is "capturing the current times with your unique sense" and covers everything from every day life, local culture and people's livelihood (...)
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Nikon International Photo Contest 2006-2007 Awarded Works Exhibition
According to Michio Kariya, the president of Nikon, the purpose of the Nikon International Photo Contest, which began in 1969 and is now the largest international photo contest in the world, is to provide (...)
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Naoki Ishikawa "New Dimension"
Naoki Ishikawa has been photographing prehistoric murals and journeys all over the world. To prehistoric hunters, the animals on the mural function not only as a motif but a resemblance of the real animal; (...)
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Hiro Kikai "Tokyo Dream Tales"
Kikai's deserted scenes are loaded with the smell and vibe of people. "Tokyo Dream Tales" is the newest book by the Domonkyo Award-winning artist who has taken "portraits of places" for a long time. 21 (...)
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Haruka Hirose "Minasoko"
This is an exhibition of about 40 black and white photographs taken in Bali.
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Nobuto Osakabe "Ease"
The artist feels liberated from captivity by photographing the world around him. He uses his entire body to feel the atmosphere around his subjects, and tries to see the world naturally. The act of taking (...)
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Yasuto Inamiya "Shape of the Nation - Highway Landscapes of Japan"
There are 8,920km of completed highways in Japan, and 15,000km when those under construction and currently in the planning stages are included. This artist traveled through Japan from 2005 to 2007 to photograph (...)
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Kousuke Adachi "Rakuchu-rakugaikei"
In the 16th century, Karino School artists painted Kyoto street scenes onto what is now known as the "Rakuchu-rakugai-zubyobu" painted folding screen. There are scenes of tourists visiting famous spots, (...)
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Chieko Aoshima "Shining Sound: IV Delhi"
This artist's "Shining Sound" series has been shown in Japan, Taiwan, Thailand and other Asian countries and finally arrived in Delhi, India. The works in this exhibition portray the natural, religious, (...)
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Eimu Arino "Nameless Earth Works: American Edition"
In contemporary art, there are artists who have dug the earth, collected it, inspected it and created 'works' by carving their own ideas into it. These works are called "earth works". However, when one (...)
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31st Japan High School Culture Festival Photography Exhibition
This exhibition features 308 selected photographs from each prefecture. The three-person committee, including photographer Daido Moriyama, selected the most excellent works.
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Hiroshi Watanabe "I See Angels Every Day"
On a summer's day in July 2001, the photographer visited San Lazaro Psychiatric Hospital. There were many patients, some walking around, some sleeping, others just sitting on their beds. All of a sudden (...)
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Haruhiko Shimauchi "Mexico, Sonora, Landscapes"
Sonora state is in the north of Mexico, bordering with the United States. 7 years ago, the photographer visited a friend there and while traveling down the highway that runs through the state from north (...)
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Hitoshi Uemoto "Oil 2006"
The photographer lives in the industrialized belt along the shore of the Seto Inland Sea. With the "peak oil" phenomenon and the inevitable need to switch to clean energy in the near future, our energy-dependent (...)
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Keishi Kubo "Scenes Not Passed By"
The artist enjoys taking photographs of scenes in every day life that appeal to his senses and in places where he is a stranger. Scenes that seem ordinary to those familiar with them can cause a stranger (...)
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Nami Iwase "Voices at Night"
Taking walks at night, the artist takes images of people who she feels a certain "attraction" to. By talking to her subjects, a new relationship is born between the subject and the artist. Looking at the (...)
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Tomohiro Kaneko "Botany"
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Keiko Tsuchiya "An Island with Cats"
When visiting islands, the artist always found the boat ride to be very uncomfortable, being the only person on board who didn't belong to the island. As the island people would talk to her and guide her (...)
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Isamu Iida "Border Transgression Zone"
This photographer has been reporting on North Koreans fleeing into China for 10 years, and on seven occasions has traveled through the area where most refugees cross the border. At the time of his first (...)
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Tomoe Murakami "Water, Full -The Series of Water"
When water fills the air, it condenses, blurs our vision, and creates a dreamy view of the world. The artist has been attracted to this phenomenon since not too long ago. The exhibition features photographs (...)
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Issei Suda "Japanese Sceneries"
Following the end of the war, this photographer's objective was a simple one: to find food to eat, alcohol to drink and live life to the full. Everybody was working towards that aim at the time. However, (...)
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Fusako Kodama "Hope Now"
In 1992, Fusako Kodama produced a book entitled "Tokyo - One Thousand Years Later", which depicted Japanese youth during the post-"Bubble" years. The structure of the economy has changed since then, bringing (...)
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Ikuo Nakamura "A Journey of 27,000 Hours in the Ocean"
Ikuo Nakamura, a pioneer of underwater photography, presents "A Journey of 27,000 Hours in the Ocean." The exhibition features photographs of deep water crabs and other sea creatures that live in Tokyo (...)
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Ryu Hanabusa "The Kingdom of Beauty"
Ryu Hanabusa has continuously taken photographs of figurative sculptures and nude paintings in Greek, Italian and French art museums. Hanabusa sees a strong connection between still photography and the (...)
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"Juna 21" Exhibition
The exhibition is a joint project by 4 photographers. The artists will exhibit in the following themes; Kazunori Jitosho "the Town as a Treasure Box" Naoki Abe "Afternoon Garden" Miyuki Motoki "Connecting (...)
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Osaka Photography Month 2007 "One Space with 150 Photographers" Exhibition
The event, "Osaka Photography Month" celebrates its sixth year. It is a joint project with other Osaka galleries, and approximately 150 photographers display their work in a limited space of 1.5 × 1.5 (...)
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Keizo Kitajima "USSR 1991"
When the USSR collapsed in 1991, the artist stayed at the former country and took pictures for 150 days. When the artist first arrived, there was no telling what would happen in a few months. By taking (...)
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Soichiro Izumi "The People Train"
Trains are an important space for people. In comparison to biking or driving, one must stay still in the moving train regardless of how urgent one is to get to a specific destination. Time stops and each (...)
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Irene Carolina Herrera "Identity -Nikkei Brazilians-"
In "Identity", Herrera explores the world of Japanese immigrants (Nikkei). Brazil is the largest home for Japanese immigrants with more than a million Nikkei Brazilians. In search of the Japanese culture (...)
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Hiroshi Saito "On Looking at Powerlessness"
Saito's photographs capture the present state of the Matsuo mine in Iwate prefecture, once called the "Eastern Warship Island" and "Heaven on the Clouds". However, after its fortunate days, the mine attracted (...)
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Gen Sakuma "Go There!"
The artist's photographing process is similar to that of collecting insect samples. Instead of using the net, the artist uses the camera to capture the subject. The landscapes captured in the film become (...)
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Fumihiko Kato "Yaku-jima's Waters" Exhibition
Located near the tropical region, Yakujima has a unique landscape where avid rainfall and its steep cliffs form beautiful gorges. 44 black and white photographs will be on display.
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Hwang Yongki "The Night Mirage" Exhibition
Since April 2004, Hwang Yongki has resided in Japan. During the two and half years, the artist has been interested in the cityscape's pachinko parlors. The artist began photographing the pachinko parlors (...)




