Objects and words also have hollow places in which a past sleeps, as in everyday acts of walking, eating, going to … More
Category: photography
Tokyo Photographic Research at CO-OP/ Unseen Photo Fair (Amsterdam)
Tokyo Photographic Research (website soon to be launched) is heading towards its phase two, digging deeper and bolder into Tokyo’s … More
Remains of the Day: ‘So it Goes’ by Miho Kajioka (Caroline O’Breen Gallery, Amsterdam & Ibasho Gallery, Antwerp)
Photographs do not always disclose clues, nor lead us to the sites we imagine, nor release us from what lies … More
Regarding* the Gaze: Tokyo Rumando & Hideka Tonomura in ‘Double Method’ (Daiwa Foundation, London)
‘We must cease once and for all to describe the effects of power in negative terms: it ‘excludes’, it ‘represses’, … More
Taisuke Koyama ‘Tokyo Photographic Research # 1: Phase Trans’ (G/P Gallery, Tokyo)
Tokyo is a difficult city to get to know. Paul Waley, Tokyo: City of Stories (1991) Regardless of what … More
Art in Making: AIR Onomichi (Komyouji Kaikan) & Abandoned House Reclamation Project
‘Certainly, for artists of all stripes, the unknown, the idea or the form or the tale that has not yet … More
On Resistance: Tomomi Morita & Tadashi Ono / Kyotographie 2018 (Horikawa Oike Gallery, Kyoto)
Japan is changing. Inevitably. The country we know from old postcards and associate with ancient stories and … More
Kyoto is Life: International Photo Festival Kyotographie 2018 (Kyoto)
I am visiting Kyoto and Japan for the first time ever. I was never going to be objective about … More
Toshio Shibata ‘Bridge’ (Daiwa Foundation, London & Ibasho Gallery, Antwerp)
“During the shooting, I often imagine unrelated matters which are the impressions I receive from the subject; going away from … More
Takashi Kawashima, Absence and Ambience (Daiwa Foundation, London 4 – 27 October 2017)
“Maybe it is not the destructiveness of the volcano that pleases most, though everyone loves a conflagration, but its defiance … More