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Photographs as graves: Taiji Matsue’s JP-01 SPK (Part 2) JP01-80 from Taiji Matsue’s photo book JP-01 SPK (AKAAKA, 2014) All images: © Taiji Matsue, courtesy the artist and Taro Nasu. The first 11 works in the photobook are all photosView More >

Photographs as graves: Taiji Matsue’s JP-01 SPK (Part 1) Taiji Matsue’s new photobook, JP-01 SPK (AKAAKA, 2014) is, as the city code of the title suggests, a book dedicated to one city: Sapporo. However, perhaps because the subject has beenView More >

From Karatsu, to Karatsu – The Adventures of Yasumoto Kajiwara (Part 2) Hearing that Kajiwara favors using “materials and firing methods of the time,” you can imagine just how difficult the creative process is, but Kajiwara’s methods are always clear-cutView More >

From Karatsu, to Karatsu – The Adventures of Yasumoto Kajiwara (Part 1) Japanese contemporary ceramics originate from two movements that developed in the 1920s and ’30s; namely, the mingei (folk craft) movement founded by Soetsu Yanagi (1), and the MomoyamaView More >

A Restatement: The Art of ‘Ground Zero’ (Part 19) “Yasashii Bijutsu” and Takashi Tosu II Takashi Tosu – Oshima leprosy sanatorium, film #00. All photos: From Nobuyuki Takahashi’s Twitter (@yasashiibijutsu). This photo posted August 2, 2014. The manner in whichView More >

Japanese Portraits: Ryuichi Ishikawa, Shinichiro Uchikura, Yosuke Harada I once referred to the tendency among the generation of photographers from the likes of Takashi Yasumura (b. 1972) to the subject of my previous column, Yosuke Takeda (b. 1982), which wasView More >

A Restatement: The Art of ‘Ground Zero’ (Part 18) “Yasashii Bijutsu” and Takashi Tosu I Yasashii Bijutsu Project – Café Shiyoru. Photo Kimito Takahashi. All photos courtesy Art Setouchi Executive Committee. “I want to be critiqued and questioned exhaustively.” ThisView More >

Isolation and distance, or light in a box and light on paper Since winning successive Canon New Cosmos of Photography Honorable Mention awards in 2007 and 2008 and holding his debut solo exhibition in 2009, Yosuke Takeda (b. 1982) hasView More >

Clay and Form: A review of the Ryuichi Kakurezaki exhibition ‘Serving for Integrity’ Opened in April 2003, the Kikuchi Kanjitsu Memorial Musée Tomo, situated next to the Okura Hotel in Tokyo, is a relatively new art museum, but having hostedView More >

A Restatement: The Art of ‘Ground Zero’ (Part 17) Kota Takeuchi and Fukushima II: The Correlation/Reciprocation between Paintings and Twitter Kota Takeuchi – “Ego Search” series (2013), oil on canvas, 162 x 130.3 cm each. Installation view at “Sight ConsumingView More >