Tokyo Exhibitions

Reply to Who wants to take over this group?

nobody@flickr.com (WanderingSolesPhotography) — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:38:10 -0700

WanderingSolesPhotography posted a reply:

You could always delete the group in some kind of undemocratic swoop.)

Who wants to take over this group?

nobody@flickr.com (The former Madame Suzuki!!!) — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 08:27:24 -0700

The former Madame Suzuki!!! posted a new topic:

Somehow I ended up in charge of this group, which I don't want to do, esp since I no longer live in Tokyo. Anyone want to take it over?

How to Participate in Upcoming Photo Exhibits!

nobody@flickr.com (stephenlebovits) — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:59:09 -0800

stephenlebovits posted a new topic:

Hi everybody,

Please let me introduce myself. My name is Stephen and I am an expat Montrealer who'se been living in Tokyo for the last 4 years. I also enjoy photography, and I work at Design Festa in Harajuku (www.designfesta.com).

There are many photo groups in and around Tokyo, on Flickr and other similar sights, and it is quite difficult to keep abreast of everything, so I am sending out this short message.

I am trying to organize a variety of photo exhibits to take place over the next year and I would like to start by compiling a list of people who may be interested in participating.

If you take photos of any kind and you would be interested, please fill-out the brief questionnaire below and email back to me at:

slebovits@gmail.com

Full Name:
Email Address:
Website Address:
Your Photographic Style:
When In Japan You Live:

The first event is slated for March 12/13 & 14 at the Design Festa East Gallery. Following it's success I will be organizing other, similar events, that I would like to notify you all about.

That's it for now. If you have any questions please ask away. If you are curious about my style, please visit my site at:

www.brokenfotografy.smugmug.com

Thanks for your time and please feel free to distribute this message to anyone else you think might be interested.

Ciao for now!

Stephen Lebovits

March Exhibit - looking for photographers!

nobody@flickr.com (stephenlebovits) — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:12:39 -0800

stephenlebovits posted a new topic:

hey there,

stephen here. i work at Design Festa and i am organizing an exhibitIon for fri/sa/sun march 12, 13 & 14 and i am looking for participants. to fill the room i need 18 shooters, and to date i have about 10. the details are below, if you are interested please get in contact with me sooner than later as i have to secure the room, start on the flyer and other promo stuff and get my stuff ready to....

PLEASE CONTACT ME AT:

SLEBOVITS@GMAIL.COM

title: carte blanche
date: march 12, 13, 14
place: design festa gallery East rooms 201/202
rental fee/photographer: ¥10 000 (this does not include printing, matting, framing, promotional material etc)
deposit: ¥3000
theme: open
medium: you can display your photos any way you choose, in any size you choose
- each photographer has approximately a 7 foot wide x 9 foot tall space to do as they wish
sales: sales are permitted without any gallery commission taken

if you are interested, you can make a bank transfer to my account using the info below (please include the tag 2010DF/Name)

Bank Name: The Bank of Mistubishi-Tokyo UFJ, Ltd.

Branch: MUSASHI-SAKAI BRANCH

Branch No: 464

Account No: ORDINARY 1688787

Account Name: Stephen Lebovits

if you are uncomfortable doing this because you don't know me, fair enough, we can meet and you can give me cash and I can give you a receipt, BUT i don't have too much time to meet these days, so the transfer is the easiest method, for me.

thanks for your time, get back to me when you can!

--
Stephen Lebovits
brokenfotografy.smugmug.com/
photos4food.blogspot.com

Reply to friend's gallery opening up in 2010

nobody@flickr.com (motionid) — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 06:31:09 -0800

motionid posted a reply:

make sure that if any photo exhibition happens in the space that you let us all know. Tachikawa is not that far away and it sounds like it could be a friendly little place to visit and meet new people. :-)

Reply to friend's gallery opening up in 2010

nobody@flickr.com ((smartvil) susana martin villarrubia) — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 03:10:29 -0800

(smartvil) susana martin villarrubia posted a reply:

i´m from spain and i would like to show my works in some gallery in japan.

Reply to Don't want to be the administrator

nobody@flickr.com (zona di fotographia) — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 15:58:22 -0800

zona di fotographia posted a reply:

Sounds fine to me, count me in.
Thomas

Don't want to be the administrator

nobody@flickr.com (The former Madame Suzuki!!!) — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:54:22 -0800

The former Madame Suzuki!!! posted a new topic:

For some reason, I am now the administrator of this group, a job I DIDN'T sign up for. Anyone interested in taking over that job?

friend's gallery opening up in 2010

nobody@flickr.com (mcvmcv) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:43:21 -0800

mcvmcv posted a new topic:

check 1 2 3... caw! caw!

i just want to give a small heads up that a friend of mine is opening up a multi purpose art gallery in january. i want to be up front about this: it is very far away from central tokyo, a 2 minute walk from sunagawa nanaban 砂川七番 station, off of the tama monorail line, which is 7 minutes from tachikawa 立川 station. he wants to use it for painting, sculpture, photography, whatever...

since it's just opening up the rates for shows at the beginning will be very cheap, like basically 1man for a week. (that's as of the time i am writing this now...) if anyone is interested in doing something let me know! email is better than flickrmail, my address is dan at mcvmcv dot net

Transdimensional Jipangu Photography Exhibit at NOS Ebisu

nobody@flickr.com (JRaptor) — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:23:27 -0700

JRaptor posted a new topic:

Dear all,

I hope you will please excuse the intrusion especially considering that I just joined the group, but I wanted to let you know about my latest exhibit entitled, "Transdimensional Jip@ngu: Japan Summarized in 10 Photos By A Permanent Alien" currently being held at NOS in Ebisu through the middle of October. The relevant details are as below:

Transdimensional Jip@ngu: Japan Summarized in 10 Photos By A Permanent Alien
超次元のジパング　～和メリカ人の写した写真10枚で纏めた日本～

August 26th to mid-October 2009 at NOS Ebisu
2009年8月26日～10月中旬まで NOS恵比寿

Hot off the heels of his acclaimed “Eternal Japan” show and the latest in his Japan series of photographic exhibits, “Transdimensional Jipangu” is photographer Jon’s Sheer’s latest exploration of the relationship between the often seemingly disparate elements that make up the Japan of today as seen through the eyes of a long-term foreign resident in Japan. The images on display have all been created using high dynamic range photography (HDR), a technique that combines multiple exposures of the same subject to produce incredibly high-definition and often surrealistic-looking pictures. To further enhance the presentation they are likewise printed on 5mm-thick acrylic panels ranging up to 1x1.5 meters in size using Taiyo Printing’s Barrier Dot stochastic printing process, which unlike conventional printing techniques eliminates the use of halftones to create highly realistic and almost three-dimensional prints.

Artist Profile
Jon is a 35 year-old American photographer who is a permanent resident of Japan born in New York City and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area but firmly rooted in Tokyo, where he has lived for over 13 years. His main fields of photographic interest include travel/adventure photography, architecture, landscapes, and Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines.
The bulk of Jon’s artistic vision is primarily expressed through HDR, which allows him to fully convey the true depth and feeling of his subject matter in an often hyper-real yet strikingly intimate fashion. His deep understanding of Japanese language and culture combined with his inherently keen Western eye provides him with a unique perspective which he infuses into his syncretic creations that blend East and West and meld the past, present, and future.

A portion of his work is on semi-permanent exhibit exclusively at the Toast Gallery in Paris, France (http://www.toastgallery.com) and was selected to represent Japan in the 2009 edition of the Relais Et Chateaux Asia guidebook, an exclusive collection of images detailing 475 of the finest hotels and gourmet restaurants in 55 countries. He is also a Getty Images Contributor and was chosen as Imagekind's Featured Artist for the month of November, 2008 and will be the Featured Artist in the October issue of Bluecanvas magazine, a publication geared toward professional artists and photographers. He has held several exhibits in Tokyo over the past few years and more are scheduled in 2010.

絶賛を得た個展「エターナルジャパン」に引き続き「超次元のジパング　～和メリカ人の写した写真10枚で纏めた日本～」は、長期に渡る在日経験を持つ外国人フォトグラファー、ジョン・シィアーが撮らえた、現代日本が内包する様々な異質性を追求した展覧会だ。

この個展の作品の全てはハイ・ダイナミック・レンジ・フォトグラフィー(HDR)、露出を変えながら同一被写体の複数画像を撮影し、それぞれの画像の適正露出部のみで合成する、という技法により制作されており、その結果極めて高品位で超現実的な写真表現が可能になった。更に、より一層写真の高品位性を高めるために、大洋印刷株式会社が開発したバリア・ドット方式、これは従来の印刷工程と異なり網点を使用せずに非常にリアルで立体的な写真再現をする、という印刷方式で、1x1.5メートル程のアクリル板に出力されている。

＜作家プロフィール＞
ジョン・シィアーはニューヨークシティに生まれ、サンフランシスコ・ベイエリア育ちの35歳、アメリカンフォトグラファーだ。15年前からジョンはここ東京で強い地盤を築きあげている。彼のお気に入りの写真のテーマは、旅行・アドベンチャーを通した、建造物、ランドスケープ、人物、仏教寺院や神社などである。ハイ・ダイナミック・レンジ・フォトグラフィー(HDR)による写真制作は、時にハイパーリアルを思わせるほど強烈に、しかし私的にテーマの核心深く到達し、彼のアーティスティックなヴィジョンを表現する。

彼の作品の一部は仏・パリ所在のToast Gallery (http://www.toastgallery.com)において半永久展示されている。また2009年版Relais et Chateaux Asia Guidebook（世界55カ国の中から選りすぐられた475のホテルとレストランを紹介するガイド）に彼の作品が日本代表として選定されている。米Getty Images Contributorとして認定されておりBluecanvasというプロの写真家と芸術家向けの雑誌の今年10月刊に注目アーティストとして載せられる予定。
www.bluecanvas.com/jraptor
www.flickr.com/photos/jraptor

NOS Ebisu
Conze Ebisu Bldg. B1
2-3-14 Ebisu-Minami, Shibuya-ku
Tokyo 150-0022

〒150-0022東京都渋谷区恵比寿南2-3-14コンツェ恵比寿B1

Tel: 03-5773-1727
www.nos-ebisu.net/top.html

Open 6pm-2am (Mon-Thurs.); 6pm-5am (Fri.-Sat.); 6pm-11pm (Sun./Hol.)
営業時間：月～木18時～2時金・土18時～5時日・祭18時～23時

Produced in cooperation with NOS Ebisu and Taiyo Printing Inc.
提供・協力：NOS恵比寿・大洋印刷株式会社

I hope to see you there!

Cheers,

Jon Sheer a.k.a Jraptor