Learn all about how contemporary Japanese photography came to be with this expert talk
Adiba Homayra’s Untitled from the series Home, 2014-2016. Pics courtesy/the artists for Focus Photography Festival 2017
Photography, by virtue of its visual nature, is an art form whose value is truly realised when it moves beyond art galleries and becomes accessible to all. Entering its fourth year, the Focus Photography Festival Mumbai (FPFM) celebrates this democratic nature of the medium by extending it onto the walls, shops, cafés and streets of Mumbai. Leading up to its biennial festival beginning in March with memory as the theme, FPFM in collaboration with Ministry Of New has organised a talk by Yasufumi Nakamori, PhD, curator and head of the Department of Photography and New Media, Minneapolis Institute of Art, USA.
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Nakamori is also a jury member for the Call For Entries exhibition (two selected submissions in pic) that will be a part of the festival in March. “There will be about 30 exhibitions across Mumbai, in art spaces and alternate venues,” says Matthieu Foss, co-founder and festival director, FPFM.
Ashita Majumdar’s Faded Memories from the series Before Now, 2015-2016.
Titled Photography in Gendai: 1968 as Year Zero in Contemporary Japanese Photography, Nakamori’s talk will trace the crucial shift from kindai (the modern) to gendai (the contemporary) in the history of Japanese photography that took place approximately from 1968 to 1970. “In the wake of Japan’s student protest movement in the late ’60s against the 1970 renewal of the Japan-US Security Treaty and the opening of the Expo ’70, artists and photographers were given freedom to defy their traditional practice, often with a camera,” Nakamori told us over an e-mail interview.
On his maiden visit to India, Nakamori is excited about India’s in-depth engagement with photography from the mid-19th century. “From exhibitions and research on Indian photography and new media... I sense bursting energy and high level of thinking and practice in the two fields,” he said.
Yasufumi Nakamori
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