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      • Ecology & waste
      • Textile as a form of Cultural heritage & Community
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    • Slapping 2015
    • Slurp piece : Eat noodle or die 2015
    • I am humility 2015
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    • Creating an exhibition
    • Tigers, lions, dragons, dolphins, rising sun and beautiful moon shining
    • Big scare
    • Combat: Iolani
    • One boy and twenty girls
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  • Home
  • News
  • Profile
  • Artist statement
  • Visual works
    • Hale 2010 / 2023
    • Odyssey : reflect Exhibition / Installation 2014-2020
    • Odyssey : reflect orginal works 2013 -2015
    • Odyssey : reflect artist book 2014 - 2018
    • A-lien Pacific 2018
    • Post-script 2013 - 2018
    • Gratitude 2017
    • Triumph 2004
    • seesaw spotting 1997-2001
    • Catherine's Pier 2017
    • Transform part one 2010
    • Looking for "tree in the sun" 2010
    • Blond Ambition 2008
    • Combat : Manual for daily survival original works 2003 -2008
    • Combat exhibition 2008
    • Mini video 2007, 2010
    • Paradise lost 2000, 2005
    • project propositions
      • Ecology & waste
      • Textile as a form of Cultural heritage & Community
  • Participate & Collaborate
    • Timelesshugs: August - December 2015
    • Timelesshugs: January - February 2016
    • Timelesshugs: Arles 2016
    • Timeless hugs: Bandstand
    • Combat in progress 2008
    • A-lien cuisine 2018
    • Aloha Phantasm 2015
    • Humility Quest 2014
    • one night in the gallery 2015
    • Mini dictionary of aqua-humility 2015
    • Slapping 2015
    • Slurp piece : Eat noodle or die 2015
    • I am humility 2015
  • Community, Residency & Workshops
    • Samsara in Arcadia
    • Writing of light
    • Combat: lockdown
    • Aloha
    • Creating an exhibition
    • Tigers, lions, dragons, dolphins, rising sun and beautiful moon shining
    • Big scare
    • Combat: Iolani
    • One boy and twenty girls
    • Sing & See
    • Workshop & Conferences
  • Organization & Curation
    • Photography?Why?
    • L'anti chambre
    • Watashitachi-Nous
    • Tohoku
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Photography?End? Publication: Press release

6/26/2022

 
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We are pleased to announce the publication of the book Photography? End?
 
Title: Photography? End?
Seven visions and seven photographic experiences
 
Content:
 
The book consists of individual interviews with seven Japanese artists, based in Japan and abroad. They are working together as an artist collective under the same name as this book title - Photography? End? The members are: Yuji Hamada, Ken Kitano, Miki Nitadori, Yuki Onodera, Naruki Oshima, Risaku Suzuki and Kazuyoshi Usui. The interviews were conducted and edited by curator Mitsuhiro Wakayama, who asks how the artists had come to adopt the medium of photography in developing their work and what role it has played in their creation up to now. The book explores the work of each of the artists, revealing both their shared and contrasting qualities as they are. The artists hope this could be a starting point for the reader to discover or question what contemporary photography may be. Each of the interviews is accompanied by color and black and white photographs that illustrate the respective works and creative processes of the artists.
 
In addition to the standard edition, there is a special edition of 30 boxed sets, comprising the book together with one original object from each of the seven artists (such as film, photographic prints, or sound files) relating to their creative process.
 
Publisher: Magic hour edition, 
Interviewer/ Editor: Mitsuhiro Wakayama
Design: Yuri Suyama
Translation: Gavin Frew
Proof reading (Japanese): Fuyuki Ono
Proof reading/ editor (English): Susan Chikuba
Publishing date: June 10 2022
First printing: 1,500 copies / Special edition 30 copies
Languages: English/ Japanese
Size: A5, 148 x 210 mm
Total Pages: 196 (text: 124 pages, photographs: 72 pages)
ISBN: 978-4-600-00839-0

For further inquiries about the book and press images, please contact Magic Hour Editon
at: magic.hour.edition(at)gmail.com
 

Photography?End? exhibition/talk : Post Ebisu Japan

6/26/2022

 
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odyssey : reflect installation, extract reading & dance No no boy by John Okada (French)

6/18/2022

 
After very busy last 2 years, we are catching back with our works. I hope you enjoy it!

Good luck & Peace

12/11/2021

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Offerings for all the JA soldiers who lost their lives in Vosges. On october 16 2021
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These artists change the past without a time machine

3/5/2021

 
Thank you Laskarina Liakakou ! https://ampa.lifo.gr/%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%B1%CE%BE%CE%B9%CE%BD%CF%8C%CE%BC%CE%B7%CF%84%CE%B1/aytes-oi-fotografoi-allazoyn-to-parelthon-choris-chronomichani/
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Grenoble , the Ancien Musée de Peinture

11/1/2020

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I was invited by the Maison de l'image to be the main exhibit for Mois de la photo, Grenoble with Aletheia Casey. This project, based on the work Odyssey : Reflect, was absolutely the the most challenging and complete experience that I have been able to share. There was a one-hour performance by Anthropologist and Buto dancer Marivi Haro with artist Eleonore Mecoli.  Eleonore read an extract of text from "No no boy" by John Okada, recommended by the French translator Anne-Sylvie Hommasel (the book is available at https://www.editionsdusonneur.com/livre/no-no-boy ).
 
 Eleonore opened the performance by walking around the picnic table anti-clockwise, reading the text then Marivi slowly came into the scene. Eleonore's circular movement made a strong sense in the textual context, wherein the audience were moving back in time and deeper into their physical & emotional experience. Marivi's entrance from bright white light to the warm lighting was dramatic. Her costume,  movements and  being were reincarnated in the spirit of the Japanese-Americans, especially the mother of Ichiro.  In the climax of her performance, one sheet of the balcony image with two boys dropped with a big sound, while she rose up with the images of children sewed into her Jiban( the kimono). When the performance ended, Marivi stayed for a long moment on the soil beneth the centrepiece, continuing the link between installation and performance. This was very successful, in that it completed the installation and the work as a whole.

I was moved to see the old Library and the work together. In this exhibition, there were pieces that I have never shown to the public, which was also a challenge. One gets used to presenting works in certain ways. For me this is the most important part to be conscious of -  to be site specific and take context into account. With this particular installation and exhibition in Grenoble, I am attempting to show the relationships in the idea: “For the future of the children”. This emphasis, whilst sharing historical photographs and values that have been important to the Japanese-Americans, is upon the future.

There were many collaborators, starting with the people who work in the Maison de l'image - Benjamin Bardinet & Yuliya Ruzhechka and their volunteers (especially Luis), ESAD
(Beaux-art) in Grenoble, Inge Linder-Gaillard, Pascale Riou and their students, ENSAG (School of Architecture) and special thanks to David Wolle , l'association Treto and the students. I would also like to give my deepest gratitude to Claire Nocolas-Fioraso (photographer)  and her team for her positive attitude and hard work.  I also wish to thank Jean Raffort (Grenoble City Council), Nadir Rajab (responsible for the maintenance of the Ancien Musée de Peinture), Philippe Veyrunes (artist) and Nathalie Muchamaud (artist), Andrew Matthews (architectural planning, organization and assistance), Michel Prilliez of Techniplan (printer), Claude Vaissier (production of original works), Vi ceramiques (transfer on porcelain), Valerie Millet (edition sonneur), Yarli Allison (artist) and Thomas Hardy.

We all hope that after the lockdown, which sadly struck within 48 hours of the opening, the exhibition will be open to visitors once again.
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Le monde diplomatique

7/31/2020

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I received the two copies of le monde diplomatique in my post box. I was little surprised by the title of the text.
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Kazuyoshi Usui : Showa Trilogy

2/15/2020

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Kazuyoshi Usui's “Showa Trilogy” imagines how Japan would have been if the Showa Era in which we were born had not ended. He confronts us with a vision that blurs the distinction between fiction and reality in a setting that resembles the “real Japan”, but one that has now almost disappeared with the advent of the Olympic Games in the summer of 2020. His photographs do not constitute a fictional narrative, but rather function like headlines that invite spectators to create their own interpretation.

Exploring the same theme of the imagined continuation of past time, the artist
Yuki Onodera (another photographer participating in the project, Photography? Why? www.photographywhy.com), in her series “Below Orpheus”, adopted a different approach, excluding all signs of physical human presence from her images, in which the locations in and Spain and New Zealand are photographed in a way evoking suspense, as if the viewer is invited to look for traces of some disappeared person.

Kazuyoshi’s work, on the other hand, frequently adopts a still life approach, presenting room interiors that are rich in details such as cheap plastic flowers, a skull, a carpet and old landline telephone.

One of the photographs presented in this exhibition shows a plastic rose displayed in a Tokonoma (alcove). This flower can be interpreted as a metaphor of what is magnificently inexpensive, convincingly bold and eternally living, yet quickly consumed, in parallel to the way people lived during the Showa years. Many people who did not grow up in Japan could imagine these images to be depictions of either present-day Japan or of past Japan. Yet the country he depicts is one that the majority of people brought up in post-war Japan have never experienced. They may recognize certain elements shown within the photographic frame, but have never known this Showa era first hand, other than from watching some movies made in the 1970s and a few TV programs from the 1980s. Kazuyoshi's works are full of the kind of contradictions that are quite real in the context of everyday life.

The people shown in this series, both real and fictional, can all be seen as marginal characters that it would have been unlikely to encounter in the typical shotengai (shopping street) of former times. It can be supposed that they come from somewhere quite special, at once spiritual, dark, dubious and bright. Kazuyoshi’s photographs are infused with research and a magical imagination superimposed with chance encounters in real life. This is not merely a question of choosing to spend time with marginal people met at random and subsequently photograph them. In some cases, Kazuyoshi visited places over a period of more than 5 years before taking photographs.

The duality of human existence can be rife with contradiction. After the passage of new legislation in 1984 intended to combat Yakuza gangsters, the latter transformed themselves into slick, western-style businessmen. By the time the economic bubble burst in the late 1990s, Japan had come to resemble any typical western country embracing values of clean minimalism and sober design. Nobody wanted to remain stuck in a tacky, cheap and sweaty marginal lifestyle in Japan. Moreover, the reality of the Showa era, it could be demonstrated, was characterized by a considerably grimier and grayer aspect, where everybody sought to look alike. It was less colorful period, generally devoid of the eye-catching individuals featured in Kazuyoshi's photographs.  It may be that nobody had ever wanted to live this way, yet this was all they had known after the Second World War. Nonetheless, through Kazuyoshi's photographs, true beauty can be discerned in this way of living with courage and dignity while displaying an aptitude for self-acceptance and even self-deprecation. It is to be borne in mind that Japan was considered a third world country until the early 1960s. Like other countries in Asia, Japan turned its back on this period of poverty, in which survival through strength in any way possible had been the rule. In Kazuyoshi’s work, there is that strength and energy of people being ready to laugh at themselves, accepting whatever life may throw at them and being proud of not merely surviving, but living.

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Anti-Chambre Act2 : February 21-23 2020

2/14/2020

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Propositions curatoriales :
Léa Bismuth / Nicolas Boulard, Sabrina Vitali - Denis Curti / Lady Tarin
Valérie Fougeirol / Stéphanie Solinas - Fanny Lambert / Eric Rondepierre
Miki Nitadori / Kazuyoshi Usui - Victor Mazière / Carole Fékété - Pascale Obolo
/ Rita Alaoui - Marguerite Pilven / Maike Freess, Jessica Lajard, Olivier Leroi

Galeristes, éditeurs et antiquariats
Asymetria (Warsaw) - Baudoin Lebon (Paris) - Ibasho (Antwerpen) -
Folia (Paris) - the (M) éditions - Le Plac’art Photo (Paris)
Chambres à louer «La collectionneuse» :
La Méduse, Room 31 - Julie Barrau - Pierre Escot - Corine Borgnet -
Jean-Baptiste Lallau - Maire Gayet / Low Art, Guacolda & Lionel Tua -
Jean-Marc Tingaud - Un livre une image

Partenaires & Programmation
Centre Wallonie Bruxelles | Paris - Festival Ovni - Artéfact - L’ahah
Guest : Le Banquet versus Ryoko Sekiguchi avec la complicité des chefs étoilés
de Virtus, Chiho Kanzaki & Marcelo Di Giacomo, Paz Levinson

Le Registre Acte 2 : Nathalie Leleu
Soirée épos : Pierre Escot & David Fenech
Black Light : Clara Kern
Performance : Estera Tajber

Vente à la chandelle
Dimanche 23 février 2020 à 19h
Oeuvres choisies et inédites des artistes de l’Antichambre

LIEU : Hôtel La Nouvelle République 9 rue Moret 75011 Paris
Invitation valable également pour les Visites
le Samedi 22 et le dimanche 23 février 2020 de midi à minuit

uniquement sur inscription : altavoltaagency.net
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Biennale Internation de Casablanca

11/7/2019

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Very happy to announce that I will be participating in the Biennale International  de Casablanca in 2020.
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photography? why?

10/21/2019

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I worked quite intensively from beginning of September for this project presentation & residency.
http://photographywhy.com/( no longer avaiable.soon will be a web page again.)
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AFRIKADAA

6/25/2019

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Odyssey : Reflect is published on the fresh AFRIKADAA issue with text by Claude Leblancs et Anne-Sylvie Homassel. This issue is in French and English, the title is " in between two worlds, art as arm of healing" . You can order this issue from .
https://www.amazon.fr/Afrikadaa-12-lEntre-Monde-Gu%C3%A9rison/dp/2363450922
or
https://fr.shopping.rakuten.com/offer/buy/3925494589/afrikadaa-12-l-entre-deux-monde-l-art-comme-arme-de-guerison-format-broche.html?filter=10&scroll=shop_sections
Thank you to the team of AFRIKADAA!

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Lexus-Figaro : Emotional design

5/13/2019

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In February, I was happy to be invited to do a commercial for Lexus for Figaro with Miguel Chevalier.   It is now published.
Our conversation was long and therefore it feels as we are almost not saying much but I was very happy to meet the person who recruited us, Vincent Thobel, journalist, organizer, staff and Miguel for convivial moment. I read the history of Toyota many years ago. It is a family based company with their own stance that is known for how they keep their finances ( keeping their money in standard bank account for emergency, which may have changed now.) how they deal with car shipping company (they will refuse the deal if they consider it to be too cheap to get the transportation correctly.) and their passion of building the first car. ( they imported a car and they took a part all the parts to understand what it consisted and they rebuilt the same car to understand how they are made.) They transformed their business from making the industrial sewing machine to car manufacture. Many taxi drivers in Paris own a Toyota and they say that Toyota is reliable and they are happy that they decided on Toyota.  These are the reason also why, it was a pleasure for me to do this work.  https://excellence-par-lexus.lefigaro.fr/cross_portrait/design-emotionnel-nitadori-chevalier

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odyssey : reflect book at artefact Marais

4/17/2019

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Currently showing my odyssey-reflect art book at artefact Marais. 23 Rue des Blancs-Manteaux ,75004  Paris. 
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Dorota Stolarska : archive photo practice: Indre Serpytyte & Miki Nitadori

3/12/2019

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Dorota Stolarska, http://dorotastolarska.paspartout.com gave a conference, last year and made a publication concerning archive photo practice of Indre Serpytyte and I . She kindly sent me the photographs. Dorota is a photographer and a researcher ( PHD candidate) and she wrote this text because she uses also archive photographs in her works. I can not read the text as it is in Polish but I did appreciate her selection of works. Thank you Dorota! And Cecile Laly for her interview with me that is also used in her text.

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Portait Flottant : Roxanne Ait Taouit

3/4/2019

 
Merci Roxanne!

Good bye Arles!

10/4/2018

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The time has come for us to say sayonara
My heart will always be yours for eternity
I knew some time we'd have to say sayonara

Ok. the Collage will finally come down. from the October 9 to 13. You are welcome to pass by to help us or come and just chat, meet and perhaps you would like to have a piece of this work.
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Who is Hisako Kosaka? and who are you?

9/15/2018

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surprise, surprise!  In July I worked on the collage installation on the wall of collectif E3, 3 rue des Pénitents bleus in Arles, France. People asked me who is Hisako? so I said who are you? and who are the others?
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Alter : April 8 - 29, 2017

3/31/2017

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Le Workshop en  14-16 octobre 2016

8/18/2016

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Partager une expérience : créer une exposition autour d’une série photographique
Nombre de participants : 8
Horaires :ve 14 oct de 19h à 22h
sa 15 oct et di 16 oct
de 10h à 18h

Atelier de Photographie
Espace Saint -Cyprien
photo.stcyprien@mairie-toulouse.fr
05.62.27.65.45

Pour quelle raison continuons-nous à organiser des expositions
aujourd’hui, à l’ère où les images virtuelles et l’internet sont au
cœur de nos relations avec le reste du monde — individus, communautés, pratiques photographiques ?
Cet atelier se propose d’aider les participants à créer des expositions originales à partir de leurs travaux photographiques. Chaque participant sera invité à travailler sur son projet, à partir
d’une compréhension plus poussée de ce qui constitue la force, les intentions et l’essence même de son travail. De ces éléments découlent les décisions qui donneront forme à une exposition.
Sujets abordés, entre autres : le choix des œuvres, la taille des tirages, le choix du support, l’espace d’exposition, les éléments d’accompagnement (son, vidéo), les budgets, les conditions
techniques, la collaboration avec les autres professionnels, les
techniques de présentation au public.
Ce week-end d’atelier donnera l’occasion aux participants de réfléchir en profondeur à leurs séries photographiques, par le biais de discussions avec les autres stagiaires mais aussi avec
l’artiste individuellement, pour en dégager au mieux le potentiel dans le cadre d’expositions personnelles et/ou collectives.

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FP MAG  : Fotoleggendo 2016 installation

8/18/2016

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Miki Nitadori from FPmag on Vimeo.

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Odyssey is finalist for the BNL /BNP prize at MIA photo fair

4/13/2016

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It is rare that I am part of any competition because I do not like the idea of it but I am happy to announce that my work Odyssey is selected as the finalist for the BNL/ BNP prize at the MIA photo fair. 
​http://www.miafair.it/milano/en/premio-bnl-gruppo-bnp-paribas/
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Cecile Laly part 2

7/26/2015

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Voici la deuxième partie de l'entrevue avec Cecile Laly , qui continue jusqu'a ma pratique actuelle, en travaillant sur l'art non objet. http://echo.hypotheses.org/244
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 Yoyo Gonthier : Presence*#8 : Aloha Phantasm

6/17/2015

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PRESENCE*8, ALOHA PHANTASM,  Miki Nitadori, 2015, France, vidéo HD, 6:13, Sur un pont une femme se prépare à accomplir un cérémonial particulier. Avec Miki Nitadori, Paris, France
​http://www.yoyogonthier.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=49&Itemid=48
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Cecile Laly: Echo Hypotheses  : Miki Nitadori

5/26/2015

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http://echo.hypotheses.org/207
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Miki Nitadori, Seesaw Spotting, 1997-2001, photographie
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  • Home
  • News
  • Profile
  • Artist statement
  • Visual works
    • Hale 2010 / 2023
    • Odyssey : reflect Exhibition / Installation 2014-2020
    • Odyssey : reflect orginal works 2013 -2015
    • Odyssey : reflect artist book 2014 - 2018
    • A-lien Pacific 2018
    • Post-script 2013 - 2018
    • Gratitude 2017
    • Triumph 2004
    • seesaw spotting 1997-2001
    • Catherine's Pier 2017
    • Transform part one 2010
    • Looking for "tree in the sun" 2010
    • Blond Ambition 2008
    • Combat : Manual for daily survival original works 2003 -2008
    • Combat exhibition 2008
    • Mini video 2007, 2010
    • Paradise lost 2000, 2005
    • project propositions
      • Ecology & waste
      • Textile as a form of Cultural heritage & Community
  • Participate & Collaborate
    • Timelesshugs: August - December 2015
    • Timelesshugs: January - February 2016
    • Timelesshugs: Arles 2016
    • Timeless hugs: Bandstand
    • Combat in progress 2008
    • A-lien cuisine 2018
    • Aloha Phantasm 2015
    • Humility Quest 2014
    • one night in the gallery 2015
    • Mini dictionary of aqua-humility 2015
    • Slapping 2015
    • Slurp piece : Eat noodle or die 2015
    • I am humility 2015
  • Community, Residency & Workshops
    • Samsara in Arcadia
    • Writing of light
    • Combat: lockdown
    • Aloha
    • Creating an exhibition
    • Tigers, lions, dragons, dolphins, rising sun and beautiful moon shining
    • Big scare
    • Combat: Iolani
    • One boy and twenty girls
    • Sing & See
    • Workshop & Conferences
  • Organization & Curation
    • Photography?Why?
    • L'anti chambre
    • Watashitachi-Nous
    • Tohoku
  • Contact