Current
Faculty, Department of Photography, College of Art,
Nihon University Photo Exhibition
SKY V
Mayumi Suzuki / Yuki Anabuki / Motoharu Yagi
- Dates
- Friday, December 2 - Thursday, December 15, 202211:00～18:00
Explanation of Works(In Japanese)
Mayumi Suzuki Profile
Born in 1977 in Onagawa, Miyagi, and now resides Tokyo, Japan. Works as a visual storyteller to find and create personal narratives.
She was raised in a family that ran a photo studio in Onagawa founded by her grandfather in 1930. Onagawa was devastated by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, which destroyed 70% of her hometown and left her parents missing. Since then, she has continued to visit her hometown to document the people of the community as they move forward. The Restoration Will has been highly acclaimed, receiving, among other awards, the Photoboox Grand Prix (Italy) and 2018 Photo España Best International Photography Book of the Year (Spain).
Associate professor at Nihon University's College of Art.
Selected Exhibitions
- Apr. 2022 10/10 Celebrating Contemporary Japanese Women Photographers, KYOTOGRAPHIE (Kyoto, Japan)
- Jul. 2020 Twilight Daylight, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum (Tokyo, Japan)
- Nov. 2018 The Restoration Will, Galeria Miejska Arsenał by Pix.House (Poznan, Poland)
- Mar. 2018 The Restoration Will, Spazio Labo (Bologna, Italy)
- Aug. 2011 The father's look and the daughter's gaze, Fujifilm Photo Salon, Traveling exhibition (Tokyo, Sendai and Osaka)
Yuki Anabuki Profile
Born in 1984 in Kagawa Prefecture.
He is a graduate, former research associate, and current assistant professor of the Department of Photography, Nihon University's College of Art. He teaches photography basics, and classes themed on fresh perspectives in image processing, science photography and other areas, as well as classes connected with student projects. His lifework is shooting casual everyday scenes using shift lenses and blurring. Recently he has been using new digital photographic equipment and techniques to create works that blend expressive techniques from various fields of art.
Member of The Photographic Society of Japan and The Japan Society for Arts and History of Photography.
Selected Exhibitions
- 2021
- SKY IV,think, Sony Imagine Gallery (Tokyo)
- 2019
- SKY II, Whispering of the Wind, Sony Imagine Gallery (Tokyo)
- 2019
- Solo Exhibition, Gallery Kingyo (Tokyo)
- 2018
- SKY, Botanical Portrait -Water Garden- /Tokyo Snow II, Sony Imagine Gallery (Tokyo)
- 2018
- Tokyo Snow 2, Gallery Kingyo (Tokyo)
- 2018
- The Time is Spring, Gallery Kingyo (Tokyo)
- 2016
- Solo Exhibition, Imai Kinpaku Gallery (Kanazawa)
- 2015
- Tokyo Snow, Gallery Kingyo (Tokyo)
- 2014
- My Scape, Gallery K (Tokyo)
- 2014
- About Memory, Gallery Kingyo (Tokyo)
- 2014
- In the Unhurried Flow, Gallery K (Tokyo)
- 2014
- Water Garden, Gallery K (Tokyo)
- 2013
- Botanical Portrait, Gallery K (Tokyo)
- 2013
- Botanical Portrait, Art Imagine Gallery (Tokyo)
- 2013
- Invisible, 315 Art Center (Seoul)
- 2012
- Beginning of the Journey, The Artcomplex Center of Tokyo
- 2012
- Solo Exhibition, Fine Art 21 (Takamatsu)
- 2011
- Accessibility, The Artcomplex Center of Tokyo
- 2010
- Sakura, Shinjuku Promenade Gallery (Tokyo)
Motoharu Yagi Profile
Born in 1994 in Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture. Graduated from the Department of Photography at Nihon University's College of Art. Since 2016, has been working as a photographer for five years in the photography department of Shinkenchikusha Co., Ltd., which publishes architectural magazines.
Takes photographs for publication in Shinkenchiku, Jutakutokushu, JA, a+u, corporate supplements, corporate books and other publications published by Shinkenchikusha. From 2021, has been a faculty member at the Department of Photography at Nihon University's College of Art. In addition to imparting the basic knowledge and techniques of silver halide photography, considers people's lifestyles arising from the connections between architecture and regional characteristics through photography.
Member of The Japan Society for Arts and History of Photography
Selected Exhibitions
- 2022
- Providing works for a photo exhibition, Cabin 17, Kitoushi Forest Park Family Travel Village (Hokkaido)
- 2022
- Special Exhibition - Tobari - Rooting in the Earth and Weaves Memories, Higashikawa Bunka Gallery (Hokkaido)
- 2012
- Children, Photo Square in Nikon Plaza Shinjuku (Tokyo)
The Department of Photography (DOP) at the Nihon University College of Art is once again staging the Sky photographic exhibition, the fifth one.
All three of the DOP faculty members showing their works at Sky V are alumni of the school who were taught the basics by their predecessors and went on to use that to explore, develop and perfect their own expression styles. Moreover, because they are involved with diverse students on a regular basis, they look at a vast number of photos daily, spurring them to try different expression modes.
The works of the three faculty members include two who are new to the DOP. Teaching is, nonetheless, their job and whatever personal creative work they do is after that, obviously limiting when and where they can photograph. However, they have continued to produce photographs, intending to present their works. This time, they have announced new works.
Yuki Anabuki is making his fourth appearance following last year. He incorporates new technologies and techniques, challenges diverse production methods and creates his own world of photographic expression. The works exhibited this time are some of his lifeworks that have been ongoing since 2004 and are successors of her work exhibited at SKY II. All of his work is grounded and shot from eye level. Although they are landscapes in reality, they are reminiscent of a vision seen from above, away from the ground. They are the world of Anabuki's memory that transcends reality.
Mayumi Suzuki returned to the DOP as a faculty member this year. She has already held numerous photo exhibitions both in Japan and abroad and is a highly acclaimed photographer. She is also famous for her dummy books. This time, her work expressing her feelings for her late parents is exhibited. She takes multiple exposures of her work on Brownie film, prints them on eight rolls of paper and arranges them to make one work stand out on the wall. It is an installation-like exhibition method and is also worth noting how the Japanese paper changes during the exhibition period.
Motoharu Yagi returned to the DOP last year after honing his skills in the architectural photography industry for five years after graduation. Now he is the youngest, but an accomplished photographer. His subject matter is the Aoshi Shrine in Nagaoka City, Niigata Prefecture, and he incorporates the memory of that land into his work. You can feel the perspective of an architectural photographer who clearly captures the characteristics of buildings everywhere, his work differing from that usually introducing shrines. He also pursues the beauty of tones in black-and-white photography, prioritizing his image of himself while using rich gradation.
They filmed under the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, showing three different worlds of expression and exhibition styles. Suzuki uses a pinhole film camera; Anabuki and Yagi shot with a digital camera using a shift lens. All three use digital output for printing. They are presenting original works that they have printed with film development and RAW development themselves, sticking to the final finish. I invite you to discover the breadth and depth of their photographic expression from the frames to the exhibition method.
In closing, I would like to express my heartfelt appreciation to everyone who has come to view this exhibition and to the many persons at Sony Imaging Gallery who made this exhibition possible.
Head,Department of Photography