Archive for May 2011

Charity photo exhibition in Tokyo

May 12, 2011 PhotoNews No comments

A group of about 70 photographers in Japan will hold a charity photo exhibition sale at Axis Gallery in Roppongi, Tokyo on May 14-15, 2011. Each original print (or photo book) will be sold for 30,000 yen and the proceeds will be donated to a charity for children in the Tohoku region affected by the earthquake/tsunami disaster.

The photographers include Sugimoto Hiroshi (photo book sale), Moriyama Daido, Kon Michiko, Suzuki Risaku (photo book sale), Nagashima Yurie, Nakano Masataka, Herbie Yamaguchi, Hirama Itaru, Bruce Osborn, and Miyoshi Kozo.

Each photographer will have 3 to 5 prints for sale. The show will be from 11 am to 8 pm on the 14th, and 11 am to 6 pm on the 15th. When a sale is made, the print will be taken down and given to the buyer. So you may not be able to see all the prints at the gallery.

Map to Axis Gallery in Roppongi: http://www.axisinc.co.jp/access.html

Info in Japanese: http://caps.vc/

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Sasamoto Tsuneko exhibition at FCCJ Tokyo

May 9, 2011 PhotoNews No comments

Japan’s first woman photojournalist is still going strong at age 96. Sasamoto Tsuneko has seen all of the Showa Period (1926-1989) and has photographed many people of the Showa times.

She’s now having an exhibition of her photos at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan in Yurakucho, Tokyo. The show will be until June 3, 2011 at the Main Bar Gallery.
http://www.fccj.or.jp/node/6591

I attended the opening reception and I found her to be very gracious and vivacious. She seems at least 20 years younger than her real age.

The FCCJ is right in front of JR Yurakucho Station. Map here:
http://www.fccj.or.jp/aboutus/map

Also see an article about her in The Japan Times:
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fa20100924a2.html

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