Red Photo Gallery, Shinjuku
Konica Hexar RF with a 35mm f2 Summicron lens
Photographer: Mitsuru Sato / prev. on TCS
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Red Photo Gallery, ShinjukuKonica Hexar RF with a 35mm f2...
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Suwa Shrine, Nishi-NipporiPolaroid SX-70
Suwa Shrine, Nishi-Nippori
Polaroid SX-70
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Suwa Shrine, Nishi-NipporiLubitel Universal 166
Suwa Shrine, Nishi-Nippori
Lubitel Universal 166
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Select promotional postcards for photographic exhibitions in...
Select promotional postcards for photographic exhibitions in Tokyo, early Sept. 2017. (The late August humidity causes the cards to curl)
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Suwa Shrine, Nishi-NipporiAsahi Pentax Spotmatic SP with...
Suwa Shrine, Nishi-Nippori
Asahi Pentax Spotmatic SP with Domiplan 50mm f2.8 lens
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Seen: ResonanceWho: Giovanni Pascarella / ジョバンニ パスカレッラ /...
Seen: Resonance
Who: Giovanni Pascarella / ジョバンニ パスカレッラ / tumblr
Where: Totem Pole Photo Gallery, Tokyo
When: August 29 - September 3, 2017 (open 12:00-19:00)
For his opening statement for his first solo exhibition, Giovanni chose a great quote from Blake Andrews:
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To wander for hours searching for the unknown requires faith. One must trust that unmarked time spent photographing will result in the world revealing itself, and that your translation of the world will be meaningful. That’s a tough mindset to maintain, because sometimes photos happen and sometimes they don’t.
- Blake Andrews
未知の何かを求め何時間も歩き回るという行為には、ある種の確信が必要である。撮影に費やす途方も無い時間を信じるものだけが、それ自体を表現する世界へと辿り着き、世界に対する解釈は意味を成す。それは忍耐と根気のいる作業である。時に写真は素晴らしいものを与えてくれるが、失敗に終わることもあるのだ。
- Blake Andrews
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Luckily, in Gio’s case, this photos indeed happened. The images aren’t simply pictures but actual real photographs. Sure, they’re shot on film (645 & 6x6) and the prints were handmade in a darkroom- but more importantly they’re photographs in the sense that the medium is inseparable from the subject. The pictures are snipped from reality, not ideas or expectations. They’re solutions to visual problems stated in that rich vein of twentieth-century Szarkowski-esque glory. They’re results of intelligence meeting curiosity combined with an itch to discover how photographs themselves work.
While every frame was exposed in Japan, the work is not at all about a foreigner’s eyes on this country. There are undoubtedly “Japanese” things seen- but the bigger picture is the nature of photography itself. There’s no attempt at explaining an overt society or culture- I think that this exhibition is an attempt for the photographer to explain an interest in the medium itself. An exhibition is one way to approach this- but I must add that Giovanni’s growing collection of vernacular photography that he’s kindly sharing on tumblr, is another.
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Ueno ParkRollei 35
Ueno Park
Rollei 35
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Ueno ParkMinolta SRT 101 with 58mm f1.4 Rokkor lens
Ueno Park
Minolta SRT 101 with 58mm f1.4 Rokkor lens
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Toei-Shinjuku lineLeica MP with 35mm f1.4 Summilux...
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OmotesandoLeica M-P with rigid 50mm f2 Summicron...
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OmotesandoContax 167MT with Carl Zeiss 45mm f2.8 Tessar lens
Omotesando
Contax 167MT with Carl Zeiss 45mm f2.8 Tessar lens
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ShinjukuKonica Hexar AF
Shinjuku
Konica Hexar AF
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Seen: 満ち来る潮 Ⅱ / Tide Rises ⅡWho: 宛超凡 / Wan Chaofan / artist...
Seen: 満ち来る潮 Ⅱ / Tide Rises Ⅱ
Who: 宛超凡 / Wan Chaofan / artist website
Where: Totem Pole Photo Gallery, Shinjuku
When: 9.5(tue) - 9.17(sun), 2017 (open 12-7, closed Mondays)
This is Wan’s third exhibition at Totem Pole since becoming a member in 2017. I unfortunately missed the first volume of Tide Rises, but there’s a familiarity in presence and distance with his earlier series By The Water. Part of this is due to materials- Tri-X & HP-5 exposed through either a Leica M4 or a Rollei 35, printed on fiber paper in a darkroom- and partly due to place- Wan’s native China appears in Tide Rises alongside images from Japan.
It’s the distance that’s most striking to me- even in relatively close-up subjects the images are isolated by focus or framing. There’s a gradual brightening-up in his sequencing. It’s similar to a tired old black and white television set turned on one more time.
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Totem Pole Photo Gallery, ShinjukuContax T
Totem Pole Photo Gallery, Shinjuku
Contax T
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ShinjukuPetri Half with Konica flash-cube flash accessory &...
Shinjuku
Petri Half with Konica flash-cube flash accessory & two-roll film case attached to the strap
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ShimokitazawaLeica M5 with Voigtlander 35mm f2.5 Color-Skopar...
Shimokitazawa
Leica M5 with Voigtlander 35mm f2.5 Color-Skopar lens
Photographer: Raymond Echevers / instagram
Webshop: GRADE SELECT/ instagram
#BuyFilmNotMegapixels
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ShinjukuPolaroid SX-70 with flash bar
Shinjuku
Polaroid SX-70 with flash bar
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RoppongiAgfa Silette LK Photographer: Tokyo Rumando / website /...
Roppongi
Agfa Silette LK
Photographer: Tokyo Rumando / website / tumblr / instagram / photobooks on shashasha
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ShibuyaOlympus S
Shibuya
Olympus S
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Seen: Ariphoto vol.30Who: 有元伸也 Shinya Arimoto / websiteWhere:...
Seen: Ariphoto vol.30
Who: 有元伸也 Shinya Arimoto / website
Where: Totem Pole Photo Gallery, Shinjuku
When: September 19 - October 1, 2017. Open 12 - 7pm, closed Mondays
In conversation yesterday with Arimoto he mentioned that from a young age he’s always been an tenacious reader of manga- becoming a comic artist was his dream in elementary school- he said that influence probably filters through into his pictures. His take on the work convincing in how this exhibition in particular was sequenced- it opens with a cartoonish landscape and slowly all kinds of individuals- I refuse to call subjects of street photography “characters”- - circulate through the frames. Surreality, through dress, costume, or situational happenstance, is a major facet of his work.
Fans of Arimoto’s photography will be please to hear that he’s published an eighth volume of his popular self-published Ariphoto zine series- copies will be available on his website once the exhibition has ended.
Speaking of photobooks- I hear that copies of Arimoto’s book Tokyo Circulation are running low- the sooner you get your copy, the better. You can order it from shashasha here.
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