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I will be exhibiting “Vanishing existence” at Polka galerie in Paris. Opening is on October 15th from 16:00. Please come join if you are in town.
Venue: Polka Galerie
Address: 12 rue Saint Gilles, Paris 75003 (Nearest metro: Chemin Vert)
Duration: October 11th – November 3rd
Links: La Lettre de la Photographie, Polka Galerie
Ibasyo series is a part of selected exhibitions of Photoquai 2011, 3rd Photo Biennale at Musée du Quai Branly in Paris. You will find the photos along the Seine river. Please come visit if you are in town.
Photoquai 2011
Venue: Musée du Quai Branly (Map)
Date: 13/09/2011 – 11/11/2011
Web：http://www.photoquai.fr
*Free admission event.
Exhibition “Ibasyo” has started at Kunsthal museum in Rotterdam. Please come visit if you have a chance.
“Ibasyo”
Venue: KUNSTHAL
Address: Museumpark, Westzeedijk 341, 3015 AA Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Duration: March 19th – June 5th
Links: Ibasyo, Visitor info
For four years, the Japanese photographer Kosuke Okahara followed the lives of six Japanese women who used self-harm as a mechanism for coping with life. This is the only way these women are able to find their ibasyo, the Japanese term for a physical and emotional place where one feels comfortable and at ease. Compassionately and from a respectful distance, Okahara illustrates the problems these girls struggle with. He hopes that his photographs will provide them with the opportunity to reflect on their own lives.
This frank photo documentary on self-harm originated with a friendship between Okahara and a student he met when he was at university. Once they had got to know each other better, she admitted to him that she was unable to feel ibasyo and for this reason had spent many years harming herself. The photographer was deeply moved by her story, not least because he himself had grown up in a family marred by alcohol abuse and domestic violence and could therefore identify with her situation.
The women in Okahara’s photographs have experienced overwhelming emotions as a result of domestic violence, sexual abuse or intimidation. Loss of self-worth, panic attacks and depression result initially in impulsive acts of self-mutilation, after which it becomes difficult to stop. The body subsequently produces endorphins, as it does following intense physical activity, and these elicit a feeling of relief and euphoria; You can finally feel ibasyo. And so these women get caught in a vicious circle that is difficult to break. Okahara’s images are at once probing, personal and confrontational. They show how young adults try to hold their own in a complex Japanese society in which imperfection is obliged to remain hidden and self-harm is very much a taboo subject.
Ibasyo will be exhibited at the Kunsthal museum in Rotterdam, The Netherlands from March 19th to June 5th. Please come visit if you have a chance.
“Ibasyo”
Venue: KUNSTHAL
Address: Museumpark, Westzeedijk 341, 3015 AA Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Duration: March 19th – June 5th
Links: Ibasyo, Visitor info
“Any given day -living for the moment in Medellin’s new drug war-” will be a part of exhibitions at Chobi Mela VI International Photography Festival in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The opening is on January 21st. Please join if you are in town.
The exhibition will be held at
“Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy”
Address: 1, Sagunbagicha, Ramna, Dhaka – 1000.
Gallery Opening Times: Friday and Saturday: 3 pm to 7 pm, Sunday to Thursday :11 am to 7 pm
Grand Opening Ceremony: 21 January, 4 pm
for more information, please check their WEBSITE and EXHIBITION VENUES.
Ibasyo series is being exhibited at Fotografia -Festival Internazionale di Rome- in Rome, Italy, until October 24th. please come visit if you are in town.
Fotografia -Festival Internazionale di Rome-
Chance and Resistance series will be exhibited at the Festiwal Fotodocumentu, international photo-documentary festival in Poznan, Poland held from November 6th to 30th. There will be a slideshow/talk session of invited photographers including myself ( Lurdes R. Basoli, Michaela Grieve,Ami Vitale, and Kosuke Okahara) with Witold Krassowski start from noon on 7th. Please visit if you are in town.
Date:
6 November 2010 at 6 p.m. – Opening
7 November 2010 at 12 a.m.– Photocast Day: slideshow/talk session with invited photographers.
Place: Galeria 2piR at the School of Humanities and Journalism at 10 Gen. Tadeusza Kutrzeby St. Poznan, Poland (Click to see the map)
Web: http://profotografia.pl/aktualnosci/1/59 (in Polish)
Ibasyo series will be exhibited at the 2010 International Orange Photo Festival held in Changsha, China from 22nd to 29th of October as a part of PDFx12′s collective show. Please visit their website and the venue if you are in town. PDFx12 curator Yumi Goto is giving a lecture from 19:30 – 21:00 on 25th of October.
I will be exhibiting 2 of my original prints from the series
Vanishing existence -abandoned leprosy villages in China-
at Gallery 21 in Daiba, Tokyo, from 7th of September through 17th of October.
Please come visit if you are in town. There are Curators-Talk session on 25th of September and 9th of October, starting from 5 pm. below are details of the exhibition.
Date: 7 September – 17 October, 2010
Time: 10am – 8pm
Place: Gallery 21 (Click to see the map)
Web: http://www.gallery21-tokyo.com
Curators’ talk session: 25th September, and 17th October, 2010 from 5pm
Curators: Naoko OHTA, Shuhei OKAYAMA
Artists: Haruhi Fujii / Kenichi Fujimoto / Taishi Hirokawa / Mikio Hasui / Kimiko Ishiyama / Haruna Kawanishi / Koichiro Kurita / Kosuke Okahara / Yuki Onodera / Takeshi Shikama / Ichigo Sugawara / Yukinori Tokoro / Celine Wu / Jean-Michel Berts / Sophie Delaporte / Michel Frapier / Les Kiki / Olivier Meriel / Gilels Perrin / Vincent Soulie / Vanessa Winship
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