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Ihiro Hamayi is the director of the T3 Photo Festival, who organizes the first photographic fair devoted to Asian photography this year. Dear Ihiro, tell us more about you and how you created the T3 Photo Festival Tokyo. To begin with, I wanted to be an artist myself, just like many curators. But I realized during university in San Diego (US) it wasn’t my path. I came back to Tokyo,…

Jeong Eun Kim is the artistic director of the first edition of T3 Photo Fair Asia. We discussed with her curating a fair and the promising years to come for this new fair dedicated to Asian photography.   Dear Jeong Eun Kim, tell us more about yourself and how you’ve became the T3 Photo Fair Asia director. I started my career as a chief editor of the magazine IANN in…

Fifty years ago, MoMA presented the exhibition "New Japanese Photography." The T3 Photo Festival Tokyo celebrates this legendary exhibition, which opened up a much broader understanding of post-war Japanese photography. Yasuhiro Ishimoto (1921–2012), Shomei Tomatsu (1930–2012), Kikuji Kawada (1933–), Masatoshi Naito (1938–), Hiromi Tsuchida (1939–), Masahisa Fukase (1934–2012), Ikko Narahara (1931–2020), Eikoh Hosoe (1933–), Ken Ohara (1942–), Shigeru Tamura (1947–), and Bishin Jumonji (1947–). Invited by John Szarkowski, director of…

Marc Feustel is the curator of two flagship exhibitions at the 2024 edition of the T3 Photo Festival Tokyo: "Alternative Visions: A Female Perspective" and "The Wall vs the Page." Let’s start with the exhibition "Alternative Visions: A Female Perspective." What is its genesis? In 2017, I was invited by the T3 Photo Festival to give a lecture on the Western perception of Japanese photography. I was quite surprised to…

Among the myriad exhibitions in the Yaesu district, the T3 Photo Festival Tokyo offers a view on the construction of masculinity through the lens of the image. Curated by Mika Kobayashi, the exhibition "Where did this ‘masculinity’ come from?" echoes the fiftieth anniversary of the landmark exhibition opened at MoMA in 1974, which sought to gather and shed light on the vibrant photographic creation in Japan. While that exhibition allowed…

The Japanese T3 Photo Fair Asia held its first edition from Friday, October 18, to Monday, October 21. In the vast space of Midtown Yaesu, it brought together Japanese and Korean galleries, before expanding next year to include other historical scenes emerging from the Asian continent. Walking through a fair remains a subjective exercise. Whether you are a collector or a passionate enthusiast, you move from gallery to artist, from…

The T3 Tokyo Photo Festival unfolds in the Nihonbashi district in unusual venues. Exploration tour.   Technology, talent, and tolerance. The T3 Tokyo Photo Festival gathers around these three words starting with the letter T, echoing Richard Florida's theory, The Rise of the Creative Class (2002). As one strolls among the exhibitions in the official program as well as its satellite program, a fourth word should be added: tribulation. While…

Cécile Tréal: A Moment in Time It’s been a long time since Cécile Tréal and I first met. It was her father who introduced us, convinced we would get along—and he was right. I can still see us, driving through the streets of Paris in her little Fiat 500… from back in the day! singing at the top of our lungs, oblivious to the world around us. These memories, and…

Launched this year, the Swiss Photomonth is a large-scale initiative aimed at highlighting the richness of the Swiss photography scene. Organized by Spectrum – Photography in Switzerland, the Swiss Photography Month, running from late August to early October, brings together nearly sixty cultural venues across the country. Noting that many photographic events are held at the end of summer, the initiative aims to increase visibility and attendance for these venues…

The Hungarian editions hECTIC bOOKs publish Porcelain and Wool by Kincső Bede. They send us these pictures and this text : Many times, we feel like objects of certain cultural codes that are based on our origins and that we never asked for. To reconsider the approach to our birthplace without feeling stigmatized and patriotic, Kincső Bede offers a photobook. She grew up in the Hungarian Székely minority of Transylvania,…

Until the 23rd of November, Joseph Bellows Gallery presents the work of Bevan Davies. Bevan Davies: New York Typologies features vintage black and white photographs of lower Manhattan made in the mid-1970s. Davies utilized a large-format view camera to generate images of great depth and clarity, pursuing an approach to documenting the urban landscape of the Empire City that the late photographer Lewis Baltz described as “rigorously contemporary while acknowledging…

What a beautiful book, what a wonderful eye! A Poor Sort of Memory by Tracy L. Chandler captures the essential strangeness of the inhabited desert in a special way, her photos telling us stories about things that happened in a private past. These are not the decisive moments of photo theory but rather the memories of them. They stir emotions in the same way visiting a historical site stir emotions.…

Bruno Quinquet sends us his series “〒YUBIN” and presents it as follows: “〒 YUBIN” is a collection of urban scenes from Tokyo, observed from the standpoint of a postal worker on their delivery round. The 〒 sign, known as “yubin mark”, is the symbol of the postal service (yubin) and zip code in Japan. The idea of emulating a postal worker’s eye on the city arose from my desire to…

I met Jerho (from UK) and Ruben in Spain, in the working-class neighbourhoods on the outskirts of Barcelona. They are a flamenco duo who opened their doors to me, allowing me access behind the scenes. They... She allowed me to document their daily lives, their passions, their questions, their doubts, their art... In short, their lives. Flamenco Queer is a group of friends united by their love for flamenco, where…

Formal Portraits by YLLA (Camilla Koffler, 1911 - 1955) My pictures preach no message and present no scheme of world betterment … I try for simpler goals: the personalities of the animals, their expressions, their beauty. I have often been asked what my favorite animal is. Any animal I am photographing is my favorite until I feel that I have exhausted