During CP+2017, （CAMERA & PHOTO IMAGING SHOW 2017）, SAMURAI FOTO Exhibition is held in Minatomirai Station.
Since SAMURAI FOTO was established in 2012, our members have made a great effort to promote their artworks in art market in foreign countries. We have learned techniques of making a good artwork and gradually, our works gain global recognition. Through SAMURAI FOTO Exhibition, we’d like to share our experiences with many people. We hope more photographers in Japan will be active in the world. During thesess ion, we will give some seminars at the exhibition site and CP+ manufacturer booth.
‘SAMURAI FOTO’ is a non-profit organization. We constantly strive to improve photo printing skills, build our own philosophies to write the artist statements and work hard on making photography projects. To improve each photographic ability and seize an opportunity to succeed in the world, we aggressively joined global portfolio review held in Arles (south France） and Huston (the U.S）. There, we could steadily achieve results as some photographs were sold, and appeared in a photo magazine in a foreign country, were invited to an international photo festival, and got a chance to hold a photo exhibition overseas.
We have a photography study session once a month. Using the experiences in overseas, we invited a director of Museum of Photographic Arts and had a portfolio review and seminar.
We are surprised that many photographic experts in overseas art markets know a lot about Japanese tradition, culture, habits and history. They think our culture attractive. Now, we have to value our culture. We have a special culture that many people in foreign countries feel envy. From this point of view, we want to reconsider how lucky we are to live in Japan and make the most of it for making the photographic art works. Furthermore, we hope that we will continue to enjoy many activities in overseas.
‘Emerging Vision of Japan’, is the theme of our exhibition this time. We hope you enjoy them.
- Photo Exhibition
- Emerging Visions of Japan ～To show photographs of Japanese culture to the world～
- Period
- February 20th（Mon）to 26th（Sun）2017
- Time
- 10:30am to 6:30pm（20th: 1:00pm to 6:30pm, 26th: 10:30am to 4:00pm）
- Place
- Subway Gallery M
（1 minute walk from the ticket gate Minatomirai Station, Yokohama）
Tel: 045-664-1795
- Admission
- free
- Supporting companies
- Cooperative companies
- Awagami Factory, GANREF, Cosmos International, Jet Graff Co. Inc., Taiho Shigyo Industry Co. Ltd., Monthly Magazine ‘Photo con’, maruman co. LTD.
※This is a partner event of PHOTO YOKOHAMA
- Exhibition works
- 16 members of SAMURAI FOTO （Noriko Aoyama, Zenji Uehara, Yoshio Eda, Sunao Goto, Koji Sasaki, Kazuhiro Sasaki, Motoko Sato, Michiko Chiyoda, Toyomi Nakamura, Miwa Nomura, Hiroaki Hasumi, Koji Harada, Alfo Maeta, Yoshitaka Masuda, Koji Murata, Megumi Watanabe）
Directors of SAMURAI FOTO （Everett Kennedy Brown, Koji Suwa, Shigeru Yoshida） At the site, we will show you a short movie of 7 photographers making artworks. - Seminar
- 16 of the exhibitors and directors of SAMURAI FOTO will give you various kinds of seminar for making good art work during the session （Feb.23th to 26th） at the photo exhibition site and CP+ manufacturer booth.
- Convivial party
- We will have a small buffet party at a restaurant near the site on Feb. 25th （Sat）, from 6:00pm to 9:00pm. Not only the exhibitors but also people from the supporting companies will join the party. It is pay-your-own-way party but please feel free to join us.
About SAMURAI FOTO….
It is an incorporated non-profit organization which has been established in 2012, for the purpose of widely recognizing Japanese photographers around the world as being high quality artworks. To achieve the goal, we are making efforts to foster photographers. We present our art works and expand the international exchange. We also learn the fine art printing technique for making good art works and try to familiarize the technique. We also build our own philosophies and use them in the artist statement. Besides, various other seminars are held such as printing technique on washi paper and cotton paper, portfolio review and seminars by the executive director of the photo museum in a foreign country. There are some seminars that non-member of SAMURAI FOTO can participate.
We have a photography study session once a month, and have a photo printing and retouching skills study session once in a few months. Also, photographing training camps are held once or twice in a year. There, we talk and think about how to make fine arts.
We participate at portfolio review in overseas. We could steadily achieve results as some photographs were sold, appeared in a photo magazine in a foreign country, were invited to the international photo festival, and got a chance to hold a photo exhibition overseas.
Through our activities, we would like to support not only SAMURAI FOTO members but many Japanese pro or semiprofessional photographers, to be successful in the world.
http://www.samurai-foto.jp
Schedules at Exhibition site and CP+ manufacturer booth
Schedules at Exhibition site and CP+ manufacturer booth（PDF）
