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May 2016
Benrido Colloytype Workshop
Collotype printing started in France in the mid 1900’s and shares an intimate relationship with early photography & fine art. The process provides excellent color saturation & can reproduce images in impressive detail. This workshop will give you opportunity to visit the Benrido studio and reproduce your image using the collotype techniques, including the press.
BRICOLAGE PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP WITH ARTIST K-NARF 5/7
During KYOTOGRAPHIE, Artist Knarf will re-create his artist studio in Kyoto and will share his special technique of processing photographs with adhesive tape!
During two workshops, everyone (from 5 years old!) is invited come and make his/her own portable, take home tape-o-graphic artwork with the artist.
My Name is not Refugee
Katsuya Soda, refugee activist, founder of Kyoto community FM radio program on refugees, “Nanmin Now!”, and part-time teacher at Ryukoku University hosts a talk with special guests including, a refugee living in Japan. In this talk they discuss the meaning of the word “refugee” and the impact of the term itself through his/her first-hand experience.
Create Your Own “Kakejiku”
In this workshop, under the direction of a kakeijku artisan you can make and take home your own mini-kakejiku. The event also includes a tour of the workshop where the restoration of important cultural artefacts takes place, this work space is never usually open to the public.
Please come with an image postcard size. In Japanese only. Limited space bookings essential.
Movie screening & director talk “Japan Lies: The Photojournalism of Kikujiro Fukushima, Age 90”
Screening and talk by director Saburo Hasegawa and Prof. Kenichiro Kawamura from the department of Image Arts and Sciences, Ritsumeikan University. No reservation required.
※The venue has changed due to circumstances.
Kian — Mobile Bamboo Teahouse
* There will be the same event on 5/21. “Kian” is a contemporary adaptation of teahouse construction. Built with minimal amount of bamboo, a portable structure of 3m x 3m which can be built in any location. Kian’s spirit is the appreciation of beauty & of imperfection. Once you enter Kian, your perception changes, entering the world of Kian & the 5 senses. Seizan Toda Born in Kyoto in 1967. Deputy head priest at Daiji-in, Daitoku-ji Temple. After studying at…
Digital Gelatin Silver Printing Workshop
Digital Gelatin Silver Printing Workshop [¥4,000] [JP]
Even in this digital era the depth of black, and the texture of silver is still unique to monochrome film prints.
Talk: SEALDs “ON THE ROAD”
Shinta Yabe and Chiaki Ueda, photographers and members of SEALDs discuss their KG＋ associated exhibition “ON THE ROAD”. Moderating, we welcome Takashi Nishihara who directed the documentary movie about SEALDS “About My Liberty”, screened prior to the talk event. (11:50 – 14:45, charged)
Create Your Own “Kakejiku”
In this workshop, under the direction of a kakeijku artisan you can make and take home your own mini-kakejiku. The event also includes a tour of the workshop where the restoration of important cultural artefacts takes place, this work space is never usually open to the public.
Please come with an image postcard size. In Japanese only. Limited space bookings essential.
Kian — Mobile Bamboo Teahouse
* There will be the same event on 5/14.
“Kian” is a contemporary adaptation of teahouse construction. Built with minimal amount of bamboo, a portable structure of 3m x 3m which can be built in any location.