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 “2011-2017 Fukushima”
In an attempt to re-examine what we have lost, Hiromi Tsuchida portrays the four seasons of Fukushima in a series of photographs, reflecting landscapes which all Japanese citizens are familiar with, trying...More »
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Ichiro Kojima “The Birthplace of the Square”
Ichiro Kojima’s photographs of some town somewhere.More »
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Katsuyuki Sawada Exhibition
Now an entryway to Kansai Airport, Izumisano City in Osaka once prospered as a town of commerce and fishing in the Edo period. Katsuyuki Sawada presents photographs of the daily activities of a small old...More »
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Yasunori Murayama “A Moonlit Evening Without the Moon”
Yasunori Murayama’s works express the existence of an individual in society, in order to understand and accept society as it is, with all its complicated and contradictory layers.More »
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Masahiko Sugiyama “Workers of Japan”
Thirty dramatic photographs capturing the amazing dynamism of Japan’s workforce. Masahiko Sugiyama calls these unaltered images recording remarkable moments of the work day “Japanimation Photos.”More »
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Yusuke Endo Exhibition
If photography stops time in its process, Yusuke Endo’s photographs aim to push forward the hands of a clock. These images illustrate his preference for moving scenes over still shots.More »
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Atsushi Okuyama “A Garden and an Esquisse”
Atsushi Okuyama photographs the lives of others in the hopes of getting closer to the idea of what it means to live.More »
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Kanako Oho Exhibition
Through her photography, Kanako Oho reflects on her past and a troubling family breakup. Now married and with children, Oho has returned to the house next door to where she grew up, vicariously re-experiencing...More »
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The Constellation of Six
Celebrating 50 years since the opening of Nikon Salon, this exhibition introduces of six artists whose work can be found in the collection at Nikon Salon. Though photography has seen many changes in these...More »
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Panda Kanno “Planet Fukushima”
Since the Great East Japan Earthquake and nuclear plant accident, the work of Fukushima-born photographer Panda Kanno has reflected an altered sense of time: For some it has sped up, for others it has...More »
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Satoshi Suzuki “Fork in the Road”
Through his photographs, Satoshi Suzuki reflects on his experience of grieving over a death, and the courage that came from finding a fork in the road. More »
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Yasutaka Kojima “Berlin”
A photography show by Yasutaka Kojima.More »
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Hiroyoshi Hara “Creatures Near and Far”
Hiroyoshi Hara’s photographs capture the mice that appear in the shopping districts of Ginza and Shibuya in Tokyo.More »
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Shoichi Fujita Exhibition
An exhibition of photographs by Shoichi Fujita.More »
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Yu Shinoda “See/Sea”
A solo exhibition of photographs by Yu Shinoda.More »
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Yutaka Michihara Exhibition
An exhibition of photographs by Yutaka Michihara.More »
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Jiro Nomura Exhibition
Exhibiting photographs by Jiro Nomura.More »
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Miu Mazuki “The Latest Paradise on Earth”
A solo exhibition of photographs by Miu Mazuki.More »
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Natsuki Kuroda Exhibition
Showing photographs by Natsuki Kuroda.More »
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Fumika Seno Exhibition
An exhibition of photographs by Fumika Seno.More »
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Yoshitaka Taniguchi “Dead End”
An exhibition of photographs by Yoshitaka Taniguchi.More »
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Motonari Tagawa Exhibition
Showing photographs by Motonari Tagawa.More »
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Munehide Ida “Breakingscape”
Showing photographs by Munehide Ida.More »
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Hiroko Morishita “Freeze”
A solo photography show by Hiroko Morishita.More »
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Hiroyo Kaneko “Appearance - Portraits of People Singing”
Hiroyo Kaneko’s work “Appearance” is a portrait project depicting people while they are singing - a pure form of self-expression.More »
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Akiko Koshinuma “Lit”
A photography exhibition by Akiko Koshinuma.More »
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Michiko Inoue Exhibition
An exhibition of photographs by Michiko Inoue.More »
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Taeko Beni Exhibition
A photography exhibition by Taeko Beni.More »
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Ryota Kyoshima Exhibition
Photographs that evoke a sense of stillness, by Ryota Kyoshima.More »
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Shunji Dodo “Sea of Japan”
Photographs by Shunji Dodo.More »
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Hisato Kawashima Exhibition
Photographs by Hisato Kawashima are on show.More »
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Kumiko Strahan Exhibition
A solo photography show by an artist recently awarded the Sakata City Ken Domon Culture Prize, Kumiko Strahan.More »
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Manabu Miyazaki Exhibition
Manabu Miyazaki’s solo photography show as part of Photo Culture Week Crossing.More »
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Chou Syousyu “Time After Time”
Showing the work of Chou Syousyu.More »
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Seung-woo Yang “Shinjuku Lost Child”
“Shinjuku Lost Child” is a photographic series taken by Tokyo-based Korean photographer Seung-woo Yang between the years 1998 to 2006, depicting the vivid character and vibrant energy of the people and...More »
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Keichi Kubo “Leave It to the Tides, Leave it to the Wind”
Photography by Keichi Kubo.More »
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Saori Ogura “Learning from Rong”
Presenting 30 color photographs by Saori Ogura.More »
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Kaori Fujiwara “Looking at a Forest / Looking from a Forest”
Showing photographs by Kaori Fujiwara.More »
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Mikiko Hara Exhibition
The Kimura Ihei Award is a photographic award that has been given out every year since 1975, usually to those with shorter careers in photography. The 42nd award (in 2016) was given to Mikiko Hara for...More »
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Panda Kanno “Planet Fukushima”
Panda Kanno presents 40 color and monochrome photographs.More »
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Yuka Watanabe “Utopie”
Photography by Yuka Watanabe.More »
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Takako Chida “Grass Cradle”
Displayed here are photographs by Takako Chida.More »
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Akiko Sudo “To Lhasa”
Displayed here are color photographs that capture different scenes from Lhasa, the capital of Tibet.More »
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Eimu Arino Photography Exhibition
Eimu Arino considers the landscape in which we live, and how the Japanese think and feel whilst interacting with nature.More »
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Risa Kuno “Surface”
Exhibiting the works of photographer Risa Kuno.More »
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Nippon Camera Exhibition
Showcasing the winners of the 2016 Nippon Camera contest.More »
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Sonoko Tajima “That Afternoon”
A solo photography show by Sonoko Tajima.More »
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Visual Arts Showcase 2017
Displaying selected works from various classes of the Photography Department at the Visual Arts Creative School Osaka.More »
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Nikkor Photo Contest Exhibition: Part 1 Monochrome / Part 2 Color
Presenting award-winning works in the 64th Nikkor Photo Contest.More »
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Satoko Chikushi “May. 1976”
Color photographs of a facility that manufactured aircraft for the Japanese army. It was returned to its owner from GHQ in May, 1976. The building is dilapidated but the inside has been refurbished and...More »
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Nobuo Shimose “Point at the Moon II”
Photography by Nobuo Shimose.More »
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Satoshi Takahashi “Borei Keila – Women Fighting for Land Taken”
Satoshi Takahashi documents the women on the front lines of a protest movement in the Phnom Penh district Borei Keila, the heart of a fight against land and homes being seized for international corporate...More »
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Kuniko Kato “The Shrine Grove Vol. 2”
Kuniko Kato recalls the Fukui earthquake of 1948 that she experienced with her family, and the typhoons and heavy rain that come almost every year. The shocks of subsequent natural disasters such as the...More »
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Nikkor Club Castle Osaka Branch “Such an Osaka Story”
An exhibition of photography by the Osaka branch of Nikkor Club, with black and white portrays of the city.More »
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17th Jun Miki Award Exhibition: Yuki Abe’s “After the Fog”
Exhibiting the works of Yuki Abe.More »
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Yoshinori Harada “Life Connected Below the Ice”
Yoshinori Harada spent five years photographing water-dwelling plants during the winter months when they wither. While many photographers focus on water lilies, lotuses, and the like while they bloom in...More »
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Through Yoshio Watanabe’s Eyes: Ise Jingu, Italy, Moscow
Displaying a selection of 55 new prints from the original plates for “Ise Jingu” (1953), “Italy” (1956), and “Moscow” (1956) by the late Yoshio Watanabe, director emeritus of The Photographic Society of...More »
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Next: Osaka University of Arts Photography Department Exhibition 2016
A new wind blows into the world of photography from Osaka with the superb works of these students. Witness the high level of skill and adventurous, endeavoring spirits of photographers with untold potential....More »
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Masayuki Miyashita “Record of Streets”
A photography show by Masayuki Miyashita. With Nara City as a base, Miyashita travels the 40-50km to the nearest cities of Osaka and Kyoto, documenting his travels through his photographs. On display are...More »
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Koshi Matsumoto “Castaway in the Still Night 2”
For the past 25 years, Koshi Matsumoto has made wandering and photographing after nightfall his life’s work. Searching for scenes no one has seen before and that surpass his own imagination, his works...More »
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Yasuyuki Hiraki “Night Bugs”
Photography by Yasuyuki Hiraki.More »
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2016 All Japan Photographic Exhibition
The theme for this year’s 44th “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...More »
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Tsuneo Enari “Tama River 1970-1974)
A solo photography show by Tsuneo Enari. [Related Event] 91st Osaka Nikon Salon Photo Seminar by Tsuneo Enari. Date: Sept.29 (Thurs) 18:30-20:00 Please refer to the official site for further details....More »
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Kenta Sugino “Changchun 2006-2015”
Photography by Kenta Sugino. [Related Event] Gallery Talk by Kenta Sugino and Tomoaki Akasaka Date: Sep. 24 (Sat) 13:00–14:00More »
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Tsuyoshi Morita “Kinokuni Continued”
Photography from a trip taken by Tsuyoshi Morita, his grandfather using a Nikon F3, and his grandmother using a Pentax 67.More »
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Taku Aramasa “HORIZON OROgraphy”
Taku Aramasa’s three-part “Horizon” series, comprising “Borders,” “Vegetation,” and the pinhole camera-shot “Changes in the Visible,” focuses on orography, a method of studying elevated geographical terrains....More »
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Yoshiyuki Takeda “Eating the Mountain”
Forty color photographs that question the conquering and self-entitled use of nature by human beings.More »
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Aya Fujioka “River Flows”
Photography by Aya Fujioka.More »
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Eiji Ashida “Wild Spirits: Final Records”
Photography by Eiji Ashida.More »
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Satoshi Takahashi “Borei Keila”
A solo photography show by Satoshi Takahashi.More »
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Daisuke Yokoyama “I Can’t Do Without You!”
Daisuke Yokoyama, a stutter who sometimes struggles to express himself, uses his camera to present his perspectives and communicate. Even then, however, he is not always perfectly understood. [Related...More »
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Jun Nakasuji “The Street View - Chernobyl to Fukushima”
For two years, I have walked the streets of Namie, only through Google Street View (Yukiko Mihara) This is a line from a poem from a former resident of Namie, Fukushima. Through nuclear disaster someone’s...More »
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Nimo “sTILL LIVEs”
Photography by Nimo.More »
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Shomei Tomatsu “Island of Light”
Exhibiting a series of original color prints that portray the late distinguished photographer Shomei Tomatsu’s fascination with Miyajima Island. [Related Event] 90th Osaka Nikon Salon Photo Seminar Date:...More »
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Keiichi Takada “Living Now”
Photography by Keiichi Takata. More »
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Michio Yamauchi
Photography by Michio Yamauchi.More »
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Masami Goto
Photography by Masami Goto. More »
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2016 East Japan Yomiuri Photography Club
The 18th Yomiuri Photography Club themed group competition. More »
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Yuki Iwanami “One Last Hug”
Showing photographs by Yuki Iwanami.More »
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Yoshitake Suzuki “In the Future to Die at a Kanzan Crossroads”
A solo photography show by Yoshitake Suzuki.More »
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Syohei Ikarashi “Arpeggio Cradle”
Photographer Syohei Ikarashi captures the vivacity of our aging society through these 35 color photographs.More »
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Emi Nakata “Yosuga”
A solo photography show by Emi Nakata, featuring 20 color photographs.More »
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2015 Nippon Camera Photo Competition Exhibition
Exhibiting a selection of the best work chosen from a monthly contest held by Nippon Camera.More »
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Osaka Visual Arts Photography Department Selected Graduation Works Exhibition
Presenting outstanding photographs by students graduating from a two-year photography program. The exhibition will consist of 150 color prints and 50 monochrome works.More »
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Yoko Ishii “Beyond the Border”
Deer, like any other animal of the natural world, fill their stomachs, empty their bowels and produce children. But what makes the deer from Nara and Miyajima different from other wild animals is the fact...More »
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Osaka University of Arts Photography Course Graduate Exhibition
Showcasing selected final works by students who graduated from Osaka University of Arts last year with a degree in Photography. This exhibition is accompanied by portfolios from the entire class.More »
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Jui “Through the Wormhole”
A wormhole is a theoretical passage through space-time that could create shortcuts for long journeys across the universe. By creating a connection between different worlds, there is fluidity in which anything...More »
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Akira Otsubo “Shadow in the House #01/#02”
Akira Otsubo explores the complex layers of history which entwine architectural structures and their vestiges of memory, focusing her lens upon two contrasting houses, one set in Prague, Czech Republic...More »
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Atsushi Okuyama “New Thread”
Presenting color photographs taken around 10 years ago of various religious festivals across the Tohoku region.More »
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Michio Washio “The Road of Travel, Okinawa II”
Michio Washio continues his sensitive exploration of Okinawa in part 2 of this exhibition series.More »
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Tota Kikuchi “War Relocation Center”
Photographs of the forced internment camps for Japanese Americans during WWII.More »
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Tatsuya Shimohira “Seisorenkan”
A black and white photography exhibition by Tatsuya Shimohira. 40 monochrome works are on display.More »
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Shinzo Hanabusa “The Traces of the Great Cultural Revolution - Walking about the Old Villages at Konan in China”
In the summer of 1965, Shinzo Hanabusa first visited China as part of the Japan Congress of Journalists. The following May, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was set into motion by Mao Zedong,...More »
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Aya Kishimoto “That Place”
Aya Kishimoto exhibits 30 black and white photographs of the houses in Taiwan and Korea that were built by the Japanese when these countries were under Japanese rule, allowing viewers to momentarily savour...More »
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Tamami Iinuma “From Le Corbusier to Maekawa”
Tamami Iinuma enrolled at the Tokyo University of the Arts in 2013, within reach of Ueno Park and The Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum which was designed by her favorite architect Kunio Maekawa. Iinuma presents...More »
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Globalization - The Documentation of Actual Sites and Visualization of Social Structures
Kougoro Suzuki presents thirty color photographs that document global supply chains from the production of goods to their circulation and consumption, in line with the development of globalization.More »
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Shinya Arimoto Exhibition
Through his black and white photography, Shinya Arimoto observes the creatures who share our planet.More »
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Sakakazu Murakami Exhibition
Sakakazu Murakami presents 30 color and 5 black and white photographs of railway related scenes, from trains and tracks, to landscapes and station staff.More »
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21st Sakata City Ken Domon Culture Prize Winner Exhibition: Chizuko Sakamaki
Chizuko Sakamaki’s color photographs document the popular sport of baseball.More »
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Asia Photographers 2015 - Nepal
Brought into the spotlight due to recent tragic events of the earthquake Nepal is an ancient land surrounded by India and Tibet, a country of mountains with a long history of exchange with Japan. Here...More »
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Akira Otsubo “Shadow in the House #01/#02”
Akira Otsubo explores the complex layers of history which entwine architectural structures and their vestiges of memory, focusing her lens upon two contrasting houses, one set in Prague, Czech Republic...More »
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Toshiki Yamahata “Another Day in Palestine”
Toshiki Yamahata’s 2013–2014 photographs of olive farms, resistance movements, and laborers in Palestine.More »
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Eimu Arino “Village of Borrowed Scenery”
Eimu Arino’s photographs reveal the “Shakkei” or “borrowed landscape” culture of Japan, where surrounding scenery is taken into account and used in order to enhance the view of the garden.More »
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Hiroshi Oshima “City of Fortune - Sanhei”
A selection of photographic prints trace 4 years of the Sanhei district of Iwate, on the Sanriku coast, as it confronted disaster and worked towards recovery. Osaka Nikon Salon displays 50 black and white...More »
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Ryu Hanabusa Photography Exhibition
A photography exhibition by Ryu Hanabusa.More »
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Yoshimi Ikemoto Photography Exhibition
Starting with a barber shop in 1983, Yoshimi Ikemoto has captured around 60 shop spaces over the past 30 years, from independent shoe shops to flour shops. Not leaving out the smallest detail, Ikemoto...More »
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Reiko Shibata Photography Exhibition “The Letter that Couldn’t Reach its Destination - War Widows”
Reflecting on war times, Reiko Shibata personally visits 54 women in her hometown Okayama to capture the portraits of this last generation of war widows. (All photographs were taken between 2012-2014.)...More »
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Akihiro Saito Photography Exhibition
The reasons for climbing mountains are as many as the people who climb them. For the artist himself he climbs mountains seeking the space of floating distance. In a world overflowing with information and...More »
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Naoki Fuse “Mirrors and a Bonfire “
A photography exhibition by Naoki Fuse.More »
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Kuniko Kato Exhibition
Forty-six black and white photographs of shrines off the beaten path in Shiga Prefecture reflect on the long history of ties between people and gods. More »
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Seiichi Motohashi Photography Exhibition
Since his debut with “Coal Mine (Mountain)” in 1968, Seiichi Motohashi has been photographing real people active in their element, under the theme of “Energy.” This exhibition features the people he encountered...More »
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Megumi Fujimori Photography Exhibition
Photographer Megumi Fujimori presents forty color photographs that are sensitive to the transience of everyday life and what is considered obvious. More »
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Yuiga “The Eternal Field”
These pictures capture the ephemerality of overlapping moments in which the photographer feels a sense of personal insignificance but also connections to the distant past and far-off future.More »
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Mainichi Shimbun 34th Domon Ken Award Exhibition: Nobuo Shimose “Kekkai”
Nobuo Shimose has been working on the photographs in this exhibition for several decades, and the series could be called his life work. The photographs show us lessons we can learn from nature by presenting...More »
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150 Photographers in a Box
This exhibition uses several galleries in Osaka and allows photographers to display their work in an area of width 1.5 to 1.8 meters each. They are invited to participate regardless of age, gender, nationality...More »
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Makoto Shina “Path of the Wind, Journey of the Clouds”
Makoto Shina reflects upon the eternal presence of the sky and the ever changing clouds which voyage across its paths. With the eye always drawn to above, no matter what the time of day, Shina considers...More »
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Kazuyoshi Miyoshi “Okinawa Eternal Paradise”
A collection of photographs taken in Okinawa. [Related Event] Artists Talk Date: May.14 (Thurs) - May.20 (Wed) From 14.00 every day. Admission: Free Please refer to the official site for further...More »
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Naoya Hatakeyama “Rikuzentakata 2011-2014”
In remembrance of 3.11, Naoya Hatakeyama presents a series of landscape photographs of Rikuzentakata City that considers the time that has passed since the disaster. [Related Event] Artists Talk Date:...More »
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Junpei Setou “Communication”
A photography exhibition by Junpei Setou.More »
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Arron Hsiao “Train Project— Taiwan”
These photographs by Arron Hsiao focus on individuals and groups of people in trains and other public spaces.More »
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Emi Ichikawa “Nichi-Nichi no Ki (The Daily Tree)”
Fleeing the Fukushima nuclear accident in March 2011, Emi Ichikawa’s daughter evacuated to her mother’s care shortly before the birth of her first child. Each day mother and daughter walked out to a single...More »
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Nikkor Club Okayama Branch Exhibition
An exhibition of photography by the Okayama branch of Nikkor Club.More »
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Takeshi Dodo “The Beast that Sleeps in the Shade of the Blade of the Grass”
People and the luxury of living with nature, the circulation of life, and the gradation of life and death, are embodied in Takeshi Dodo’s photographs. [Related Event] Talk Show Date: Apr.2 (Thurs)...More »
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Junko Nakagawa Exhibition
Photographs of the peaceful Sugaura village by Lake Biwa where the people’s warmth can be felt and time seems to flow at a different pace.More »
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Koshi Matsumoto “One of these Midnight Sketches”
For the past 25 years, Koshi Matsumoto has made wandering and photographing after nightfall his life’s work. Searching for scenes no one has seen before and that surpass his own imagination, his works...More »
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Tadahito Tatsumi “Inside/Outside”
In the course of the day, at dawn and dusk for just a fraction of time the light within a tunnel and that without become balanced and create a space of continuity between interior and exterior. Tadahito...More »
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Koki Yoshida “Joetsu Line”
The Joetsu line runs from Takazaki Station in Gunma to Miyauchi Station in Nagaoka, Niigata, totaling a distance of 163km. The work in this exhibition was photographed from the windows of the train running...More »
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Riko Kawai “Shadow and Shine”
Photographs of holy and beautiful things that attract Riko Kawai.More »
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Hirotsugu Minagawa “My Grandfather and Horse Racing”
As a young child Hirotsugu Minagawa looked upon his grandfather with a certain incomprehension, that is the inability to understand why every weekend he would sit in front of the television and yell numbers...More »
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2014 Nippon Camera Photo Competition Exhibition
This ongoing photography contest has continued under the umbrella of the photography magazine “Nippon Camera”, first established in 1950 and this year has attracted 66000 entries across 4 categories from...More »
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Shinji Minami “Regional City From an Aerial Perspective”
Focusing on the area around his own home, Shinji Minami photographs the scenes and local activities of Wakayama City. Even in familiar places, there are many things he feels called to capture on camera...More »
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Selected Graduation Works From the Photography Department of Visual Arts College Osaka
A compilation of works by aspiring professional photographers graduating from Visual Arts College Osaka’s two-year course.More »
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Japan-Korea: Student Photo Contest Exhibition
Photographs have the strength to convey what words cannot, and exceed the limitations of national borders. This exhibition features works from high school students from Japan, Korea and China.More »
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Nikkor Photo Contest Exhibition
Presenting award-winning works in the 62nd Nikkor Photo Contest.More »
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Ryuichi Ishikawa “The Polyphony at a Superb View”
Ryuichi Ishikawa explores the identity of Okinawa and its complex condition of hope, sadness, peace and chaos.More »
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Hiroko Kuwabara “Encounter at an Elevation of 1100m”
In his photographs, Hiroko Kuwabara documents the natural beauty of the Yatsugatake Mountains and the people he encounters at an altitude of 1100m.More »
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Osaka University of Arts Photography Department Exhibition
A group exhibition by the Osaka University of Arts Photography Department, presenting final works under individual concepts and techniques.More »
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Kisei Kobayashi “Ring Wandering”
Kisei Kobayashi homeland of Yatsugatake is as if a desolate wasteland in winter, the cold bringing with it the strong sense of death. As summer opens upon the mountain foothills the surviving animals and...More »
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Yuki Yamano “Island of Falling Ash”
Yuki Yamano presents photographs of his native Kagoshima, where people live with eruptions by the active volcano Sakurajima hundreds of times each year.More »
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Satoru Ikegami “The Mountain Before Our Eyes”
Satoru Ikegami presents an exhibition of 45 intricate color photographs trailing his course through the mountainscape.More »
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Osamu Kanamura “Ansel Adams Stardust (You are not alone)”
In an age where we all have the ability to thoughtlessly photograph that which is before us, where does the will of photography lie? Osamu Kanamura raises uneasy questions in a multilayered documentary...More »
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Naoki Ishikawa “Kunisaki Peninsula”
Kunisaki Peninsula, situated in the northeast of Oita Prefecture in Kyushu, is an area with diverse attractions, from its rich nature to its unique historical culture of religious syncretism - mixing Shinto...More »
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Keiko Nomura “Red Water”
Keiko Nomura brings together a compilation of mainly new work with selections from past series such as Bloody Moon, Red Water, Soul Blue and others. In these photographs she captures through the iconic...More »
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Takahisa Inoue “Everyday Perception”
Takahisa Inoue perceives the world heading towards chaos as society complicates connections and we sway from the ordinary. Do these everyday photographs portray the real world?More »
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Nao Nakai “Before Dawn”
“Even if I live, I will become something without meaning.” Photographer Nao Nakai’s grandmother, who suffered from Alzheimer’s and was losing her memory, wrote this in her diary. Nakai was inspired by...More »
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Yuki Abe “New Home”
A series of 30 color photographic prints capturing the lives of people and their homes.More »
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Kiyotaka Yaguchi “Paipateroma”
On the Okinawan island of Hateruma, Japan’s southernmost inhabited island, there is the legend of Paipateroma. According to the tale, in the year 1648, 40–50 overly taxed villagers living on Hateruma escaped...More »
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Hiroo Ishikawa “Traces of Landscapes”
An exhibition of everyday scenes and landscapes that arouses Hiroh Ishikawa’s curiosity. Landscapes disappear to be replaced by others and Ishikawa asks viewers to search for the traces of landscapes that...More »
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Ichiro Kikuchi “Landscape II”
Ichiro Kikuchi has continued to travel across Japan for nearly 20 years capturing the scenes which catch his eye through an ongoing series of photographs. Here he takes a review of this collection through...More »
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Hitomi Watanabe Exhibition
An exhibition of 45 black and white prints of Shinjuku, Tokyo, in the 60s.More »
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The All-Japan Association of Photographic Societies Exhibition
Now in its 42nd volume the All-Japan Association of Photographic Societies 2014 Exhibition brings together 157 noted works from its open call, featuring works seeking out a personal sense of the contemporary...More »
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Keiichi Takada “Chasing Dreams”
An exhibition of 70 black and white photographs reflecting the thoughts and dreams of students.More »
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Mayumi Yamamoto Exhibition
In Manila, the capital of the Philippines, many people move in from rural areas, seeking employment in order to live. They establish dwelling in illegal places such as roadsides, railroads, and dry riverbeds,...More »
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Kanki Kumano “Pieces of Earth”
These photographs of sand, gravel, mud, and water form creative worlds while remaining rooted in reality. More »
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Yuki Yamano “Island of Falling Ash”
In Kagoshima Prefecture, residents pay close attention to daily TV and radio forecasts reporting on wind direction on the volcanic island of Sakurajima. For photographer Yuki Yamano, who was born in Kagoshima,...More »
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Mitsugu Onishi “Drainage Canal”
These 40 color photographs and iPad-screened images of the area surrounding the Arakawa drainage channel, an artificial watercourse in Onishi’s home neighborhood, have a quiet loneliness and ephemeral...More »
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Yoshinori Matsuno “Blinkers”
Sand is a key component of concrete, needed to create the high rise buildings and infrastructure of the capital, and to reclaim land around the Tokyo bay area. Its use came to a peak in the late 1960s,...More »
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Akiyo Ohta Exhibition
Oshima island was designated as a sanatorium for Hansen’s disease sufferers and as part of a national policy those in the surrounding region suffering from this condition were forcibly removed from their...More »
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Hiromi Tsuchida “Fukushima”
In an attempt to re-examine what we have lost, Hiromi Tsuchida portrays the four seasons of Fukushima in a series of photographs, reflecting landscapes which all Japanese citizens are familiar with, trying...More »
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Takahiro Yamashita “Heat of the Mind”
The Tomari Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant in Hokkaidō, Japan, the artist’s hometown. Following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident in March 2011, many people’s opinions of...More »
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Hiroshi Asai “Prayer at 4,000 Meters”
Thirty-five color photographs of Tibet.More »
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Osamu Kanemura “Ansel Adams Stardust(You Are Not Alone)”
Artist’s Statement: In an age when we take countless photos on our compact and mobile-phone cameras, what has happened to the rareness of the photograph? There are mountains’ worth of digital photos that...More »
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Bunyo Ishikawa Exhibition “50 Vietnam Years – War and Peace”
World-renowned Japanese photographer Bunyo Ishikawa exhibits a photo collection under the title “50 years of Vietnam – War and Peace”. Ishikawa was stationed in Saigon and covered the Vietnam War as a...More »
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Satoru Ikegami “The Mountain in Front of Eyes”
45 color photographs that depict a feeling of liberation in the mountains. The unexpected colors, light, and air create a unique tension in the atmosphere, that is carefully captured in Satoru Ikegami’s...More »
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Junya Ono “His Responses Will Stain the Rest of His Days”
Junya Ono communicates with his grandfather, a dementia patient, by photographing him. Fifteen of his color works are on display. More »
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“The Minamata Disaster” Photo Exhibition by Shisei Kuwabara
Photojournalist Shisei Kuwabara’s exhibition shows the suffering and the neurological effects among people who ate mercury-tainted seafood in and around Minamata, Kumamoto Prefecture, in the 1950s. The...More »
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The Osaka Month of Photography Exhibition 2014
The Month of Photography is a Tokyo and Osaka-based organization sponsoring “Photography Day” (June 1st) with the aim of developing and spreading the culture of photography. Covering 1.8 square meters...More »
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Masami Goto “Drifting”
The Yodo mergers into one river from three in the northern part of Osaka. Since long ago it has sometimes been a provider of many things and sometimes swallowed up everything in its path. It neither refuses...More »
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Anat Parnass “Yaki: Stillness of Night”
The Japanese work “yaki”, which combines the characters “ya” (evening, night) and “ki” (air, atmosphere), can be translated as “night air” or “night atmosphere”. Still other dictionaries define it as “stillness...More »
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Hiroshi Suga “A Momentary Asia— People in Harmony with Nature”
With an interest in the relationships of people and nature, Hiroshi Suga set out to spend a year and half in Nepal more than 40 years ago. These 60 photographs reveal Suga’s observations of the lives of...More »
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Yuko Takeyama “Sweet Melancholy”
30 color photographs depicting afternoon showers, the blue of dawn and hotel rooms.More »
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Nana Kakuda “Bitter Mango - Touching Vietnam”
A series of 40 color photographs trace Nana Kakuda’s encounter with the land of Vietnam and the everyday lives of its people, examining a country with a starkly different system to Japanese society, while...More »
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Jui “Catching the Bird”
Drawing on the powers of imagination in a weaving between dream and reality Jui renders the images of the mind in the strange forms of birds, people and beasts and moving towards the very aura of nature....More »
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Shingo Kanazawa “Home for the Aged”
Twenty two color photographs of residents of a nursing home taken in a project in which both the directors and the residents acted as artists.. The photographs were given to their subjects and displayed...More »
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Aya Fujioka “Life Studies”
At first traveling to New York for studies supported by the Agency for Cultural Affairs in 2008, Aya Fujioka went on to spend a total of 4 years in the city where she furthered her photography practice....More »
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Tamami Terasaki “Rheological Landscapes”
Tamami Terasaki spent roughly two years photographing a lake created by the construction of the Miyagse Dam in Kanagawa Prefecture and its surrounding area. The Miyagase Dam and its nearby facilities have...More »
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Kaori Inbe “I will go back to the moon, after all”
After being propositioned by a woman asking “I’m planning to end it soon, so will you take some pictures for me?” the artist began to take a series of portraits at her home, where already the clothes and...More »
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2014 Nippon Camera Photo Competition Exhibition
This monthly contest is held by Nippon Camera, a magazine established in 1950. A famous photographer acts as the judge for the year, announcing the winners in each issue and calculating the points awarded...More »
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Selected Graduation Works From the Photography Department of Visual Arts College Osaka
A compilation of works by aspiring professional photographers graduating from Visual Arts College Osaka’s two-year course. While aware that photography is not easy, these students were surprised by how...More »
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61st Nikkor Photo Contest Exhibition
Displaying all of the prize-winning works submitted in the 61st Nikkor Photo Contest. The Nikkor Photo Contest aims for the development of photography as art, the improvement of photographic technology,...More »
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Eimu Arino “A Negative Landscape— Broken Stone Place”
Presenting 40 color photographs of stone quarries, mainly in Tuscany, Italy. Stone quarries are natural terrains that have been transformed through artificial means. Taking shape as their natural states...More »
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Osaka University of Arts Photography Department 2013 Graduates’ Exhibition
A selection of the best works by 2013 graduates of Osaka University of Arts’ photography department on themes of the students’ own choosing. More »
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Tatsuya Hirabayashi “The Spiritual Mountain - Mt. Takao”
A series of 40 black and white photographs convey the hidden stories of the popular hiking spot of Mt. Takao and its spiritual history, offering up this much loved mountain as the guardian of the eastern...More »
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Kaori Fujiwara Exhibition
Disturbing the world of expectation and the world we find before us through photography, transforming doubt into belief.More »
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Kogoro Suzuki “Mines, Plantation, and Factory”
These 40 color photographs by Kogoro Suzuki, winner of the 38th Nobuo Ina Award, show one form of societal structure in the mines, plantations, and factories of Asia and Africa. Suzuki gained access to...More »
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Hitoshi Uemoto “The Area of Sea”
Upon the island of Otsushima, Shunan there is a memorial museum for “Kaiten”, human torpedoes used during WWII, steered directly into enemy ships by special naval forces, with documents and ruins of the...More »
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Keijiro Kai “Shrove Tuesday”
A collection of 30 color photographs from Keijiro Kai.More »
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Yasuko Kimura “The Confrontation with Nature”
Yasuko Kimura presents a collection of 35 color photographic works.More »
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Shisei Kuwabara “Sea of Phosphorescent Light—The Minamata Disease Disaster”
Shisei Kuwabara has been documenting the people and communities affected by Minamata disease since the 1960s. Commemorating the publication of his photo collection, “The Minamata Disaster” at the end of...More »
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Junnosuke Akita “The Gajumaru Tree of Amami”
Photographs of banyan trees on the Okinawa Island of Amami Ooshima taken over three-year period. More »
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Noriko Hayashi “Unholy Matrimony in Kyrgyzstan”
Thirty color photographs of women in their teens through their 80s who were abducted and forced to marry, said to account for roughly 40% of all married women in the central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan....More »
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Shuhei Aoki Exhibition
28 color photographs capturing scenes of Tokyo.More »
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Masato Seto “Cesium/Cs-137”
On that fateful day 35kg of cesium were released into the Earth’s atmosphere, with the majority of this falling upon land in Fukushima prefecture. That is half the amount released during the Chernobyl...More »
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Yoshiichi Hara “Tokoyo no Mushi”
The year 645 was a year of overwhelming change in Japan, when the first religious repressions began to spread through the country. According to the Nihon Shoki a man named Ofube no O championed a religious...More »
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19th Sakata City Ken Domon Culture Prize Winner Exhibition: Katsutoshi Kobayashi
Black and white photographs of life and human ties in a rural mountain settlement in Kouchi Prefecture. More »
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The All-Japan Association of Photographic Societies Exhibition 2013
The theme of this year’s contest for amateur photographers and high school students is “capturing the present from your own perspective.” The winning photographs portray everything from human relations...More »
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Nikon Photo Contest 2012-2013 Prize Winners
Now in its 34th year, the Nikon Photo Contest International has entered a new era under the name “Nikon Photo Contest,” establishing a moving images department and reviewing works from around the world...More »
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Tetsushi Ogawa “Treasures- from Fukushima”
Tetsushi Ogawa photographed the prized possessions of children from his hometown of Fukushima City. Many of the prefecture’s children had to give up their most cherished belongings after the 2011 earthquake...More »
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Yugo Shimada “NYC / Yellow-blue”
Exhibition of 30 colour photographs by Yugo Shimada.More »
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Junpei Ueda “Letter”
Photographer Junpei Ueda takes an opportunity to look back at his past, and to remember his parents, who tragically took their own lives within days of each other 15 years ago. Now a happy husband and...More »
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Takuto Sera “Physis”
This exhibition of photography by Takuto Sera emphasises the image that the camera produces and what it reveals about the nature of the things it captures, rather than an exploration of the thoughts or...More »
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Sayuri Tajima “Reflections of the Homeland: The Nikkei of Argentina”
Photographer Sayuri Tajima documents the Nikkei — a term referring to the descendants of Japanese who emigrated from Japan — communities in Argentina: a country which has the fifth largest population of...More »
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Digiscoping Club Exhibition
Exhibition of photography taken using “digiscoping” - whereby a digital camera is connected to a field spotting scope, enabling close-up images of even the tiniest critters.More »
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Michio Washio “The Road of Travel, Okinawa”
An invitation to a retrospective for the Okinawan photographer Takashi Ishimine sparked Washio’s interest in the island chain’s history, causing him to reflect on his previous detachment from and ignorance...More »
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Mikiya Natsume “Children of the Festival”
Exhibition of photography by Mikiya Natsume, who travelled Japan capturing festivals with a focus on the children who participate in them, and who will ultimately carry on these traditions for generations...More »
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Chieko Aoshima “Series: Shining Sounds VI New York, Rove”
Chieko Aoshima has traveled across Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, Delhi, Rome, and now New York for her “Shining Sounds” series. These black and white photographs continue to explore the intersection of the...More »
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“Vietnam of Nostalgia and Chaos: A Fantastic Lantern Festival” The 60th Anniversary of the Nikkor Club Touring Exhibition
An exhibition of 74 photographers who participated in the overseas tour celebrating 60 years of of Nikkor Club. This tour took its starting point at the Chinese border town Sapa and travled across 2000km...More »
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Makoto Murakami “Mizumukae -The view of “death” of the south island-
It was in 1926 when Nikolai Nevsky first encountered the story of Miyako Island’s water, myths of water which brings youth or death. In this tale the sun and moon once sent the messenger Akariyazagama...More »
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Nobuo Shimose “Pointing at the Moon”
Exhibition of monochrome photography by Nobuo Shimose of his hometown of Hagi, once a prosperous castle town.More »
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Japan Railway Photographers Society Exhibition
Exhibition of colour photography capturing scenes from railways all over the world by Japan Railway Photographers Society. For train enthusiasts and photography lovers alike!More »
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Nozomi Kosuda “Closed Square”
Exhibition of monochrome photography by Nozomi Kosuda exploring the role of public squares — whether as an easily-accessible place for people to mingle and dine, or as simply a means to a destination —...More »
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Shin Tominaga “Distant Memory”
Exhibition of monochrome and colour photography by Shin Tominaga who, with his father, traced his ancestors footsteps back to Yanggu County in South Korea, where his grandfather was based as a nurse during...More »
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Kaori Yoshikawa Exhibition
Exhibition of 10 works of colour photography by Kaori Yoshikawa. The images explores Yoshikawa’s experience of living with strangers under the same roof, using photography as a means to get to know the...More »
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Satoshi Wada Exhibition
Exhibition of photography by Satoshi Wada, who was faced with the prospect of losing his hometown due to earthquake damage and the appearance of radiation hotspots following the devastating Tohoku Earthquake...More »
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Tota Kikuchi Exhibition
Exhibition of digital photography from the desolate deserts of North America by Tota Kikuchi. These extraordinary landscapes are in fact limestone that emerged from the sea between 66 and 135 million years...More »
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Akiko Makino “Walking down Memory Lane”
Akiko Makino finds herself subconsciously searching for old streets that somehow evoke deep memories from within herself. In addition to capturing these “memory lanes” through her photography, Makino likens...More »
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Agake Masahito Exhibition
Triggered by his obsession with horror stories as a child, Masahito Agake seeks to capture the otherworldly — both pleasant or frightening — in our everyday lives through his photography. This exhibition...More »
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Tomio Morimoto “Osaka: The City of Water Today”
Osaka’s waterways, built by warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi, were once central to commercial activity in the city. Now that the majority of goods and people are transported overland, the canals and estuaries...More »
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Hideaki Uchiyama “Atom World”
Hideak Uchiyama has taken a series of 50 colour photographs at laboratories that have been at the forefront of nuclear research in Japan since before the Fukushima disaster. These photographs of extraordinary...More »
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Saburo Morita
Exhibition of photography by Saburo Morita that documents a playground left to the elements after the bubble economy collapsed in Japan, triggered by the sight one day of a downcast figure sitting on the...More »
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Nikkon Club Ginza “Tsukiji Market”
Exhibition of 60 color photographs of Tokyo’s iconic Tsukiji market, from its everyday workings to the tourists that flock there. Tsukiji market has a history stretching back to the Edo period and has...More »
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Kisei Kobayasi “Kemonomichi”
Exhibition of colour and monochrome photography on the theme of the Onbashira (log-rolling) festival, a unique event held in Nagano every 6 years and said to have a history of over 1200 years.More »
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Koyata Saito “The Eternal Garden”
Exhibition of 30 black and white photographs from Koyata Saito’s travels in Southern India, with a focus on his visit to a terminal care home.More »
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Alatenghuyiga “Life on the Grasslands - Today’s Nomad in Inner Mongolia”
An exhibition of photography reflecting the challenges faced by Inner Mongolian nomads in the wake of dramatic changes in the region, such as the spread of mining that has caused huge environmental degration,...More »
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Kuta Takashima “Noisy”
Nothing is certain in our world, yet there are moments when we feel a sense of tangibility and clarity. Takashima calls these moments “noise”, which he attempts to capture in his monochrome photography,...More »
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Kaori Fujiwara “Hologram”
Kaori Fujiwara’s photography is based on the concept of placing objects in scenes that are seemingly mismatched, in an exploration of how our world as we know it can change. More »
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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...More »
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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!"....More »
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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...More »
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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...More »
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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...More »
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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 bisMore »
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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...More »
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Makoto Kawai "Bevel"
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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...More »
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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...More »
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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...More »
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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...More »
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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...More »
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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...More »
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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...More »
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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...More »
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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...More »
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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...More »
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Taku Aramasa "Aramasa Sakura"
Photography Seminar: March 27th (Thu) 18:00-19:00More »
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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...More »
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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.More »
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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...More »
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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,...More »
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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...More »
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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...More »
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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...More »
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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...More »
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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...More »
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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)...More »
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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...More »
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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...More »
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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...More »
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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...More »
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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...More »
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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...More »
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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...More »
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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...More »
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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...More »
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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;...More »
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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...More »
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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...More »
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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...More »
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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,...More »
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Haruka Hirose "Minasoko"
This is an exhibition of about 40 black and white photographs taken in Bali. More »
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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,...More »
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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...More »
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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.More »
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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...More »
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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...More »
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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...More »
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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...More »
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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...More »
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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...More »
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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...More »
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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...More »
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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,...More »
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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...More »
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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...More »
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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...More »
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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...More »
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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...More »
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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...More »
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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...More »
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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...More »
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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...More »
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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...More »
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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.More »
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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...More »