Press Release [updated] September 1, 2014 Statement Photo © Nerhol. courtesy of the artist Japan has produced many globally recognized artists. Their powerful works, confidently presented by supporting galleries, booksellers, and publishers, are captivating. Hillside Terrace Photo Fair brings together exhibitors that have lead and continue to lead the world of art photography. The Fair will be launched in coordination with various other concurrently running events in Tokyo in September 2014, with plans for expansion in the coming years. We sincerely hope that you will join us to experience the allure of and take note of the current global trends in art photography. Outline: HILLSIDE TERRACE Photo Fair Dates and Time: Thu. September 4 -­‐ Sun. September 7, 2014, 11am – 7pm *11am – 5pm on the last day Site: Daikanyama Hillside Forum(Hillside Terrace Building F, 18-­‐8 Sarugaku-­‐cho, Shibuya-­‐ku, Tokyo, Japan) Admission Fee: Adult: ¥1,500 / Student: ¥1,000 Organizer: Fine-­‐Art Photography Association Main Sponsor: amana inc. Co-­‐Sponsors: SPACE TRAVEL, Inc. / JAPAN CREATE CO., LTD. / Canon Marketing Japan Inc. / shashasha + lemon books + P.G.I. / Photo Town Higashikawa Supporters: DAIKANYAMA TSUTAYA BOOKSTORE / HILLSIDE TERRACE / gallery ON THE HILL / Takachiho Shuzo Co., Ltd. / KYOTOGRAPHIE International Photography Festival / COGICOGI Exhibitors – Galleries: aura gallery Beijing / Taipei | EMON PHOTO GALLERY | G/P gallery | IMA / amanasalto | MEM | MISAKO & ROSEN | Gallery Naruyama | Photo Gallery International | POETIC SCAPE | ShugoArts | Taka Ishii Gallery | Taka Ishii Gallery Photography / Film | The Third Gallery Aya | TOMIO KOYAMA GALLERY | ZEN FOTO GALLERY | Picture Photo Space | YUKA TSURUNO GALLERY | Yumiko Chiba Associates | WAKO WORKS OF ART Exhibitors – Booksellers and Publishers: AKAAKA | IMA | KOMIYAMA SHOTEN | MATCH and Company | NADiff | POST | shashasha | Shelf | SUPER LABO | twelvebooks 1 Events: Talk Sessions Japan’s best known and up-­‐and-­‐coming photographers, curators and researchers will discuss the history of Japanese photography from the 1960s to the present. Dates: Thu. September 4 -­‐ Sat. September 6 Site: DAIKANYAMA T-­‐SITE, HILLSIDE TERRACE café Duration: 90 minutes per discussion Fee: ￥500-­‐ per discussion, depending on the venue. Advance booking is required. Note: All talk sessions will be conducted in Japanese. (1) Kikuji Kawada × Eikoh Hosoe × Akira Tanno × Ryuichi Kaneko (Photo Historian / Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography) Date and Time: Thu. September 4, 11:00am -­‐ 12:30pm *changed from 1:30pm-­‐3:00pm Site: Daikanyama HILLSIDE TERRACE café Organizer: HILLSIDE TERRACE Photo Fair Fee: ￥500 (including 1 drink) Booking required. Please send your name, phone-­‐number and the title of the talk to [email protected] (2) Issei Suda × Risaku Suzuki × Harumi Niwa (Curator / Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography) Date and Time: Thu. September 4, 7:30pm -­‐ 9:00pm Site: DAIKANYAMA T-­‐SITE building 1 2F Organizers: HILLSIDE TERRACE Photo Fair and DAIKANYAMA T-­‐SITE Fee: ￥500-­‐ Booking required. Please visit: http://tsite.jp/daikanyama/event/004161.html (3) Miyako Ishiuchi × Amanda Maddox (J. Paul Getty Museum) Date and Time: Thu. September 4, 9:10pm -­‐ 10:40pm Site: DAIKANYAMA T-­‐SITE building 1 2F Organizers: HILLSIDE TERRACE Photo Fair and DAIKANYAMA T-­‐SITE Fee: ￥500-­‐ Booking required. Please visit: http://tsite.jp/daikanyama/event/004161.html (4) Lucille Reyboz × Yusuke Nakanishi (Founders & Co-­‐Executive Directors / KYOTOGRAPHIE) Date and Time: Fri. September 5, 1:30pm -­‐ 3:00pm Site: HILLSIDE TERRACE café Organizer: HILLSIDE TERRACE Photo Fair Fee: ￥500 (including 1 drink) Booking required. Please send your name, phone-­‐number and the title of the talk to [email protected] (5) Daido Moriyama × Minoru Shimizu (Photo Critic / Doshisha University) Date and Time: Fri. September 5, 6:30pm -­‐ 8:00pm Site: DAIKANYAMA T-­‐SITE building 3 2F Organizers: HILLSIDE TERRACE Photo Fair and DAIKANYAMA T-­‐SITE 2 Fee: ￥500-­‐ Booking required. Please visit: http://tsite.jp/daikanyama/event/004161.html (6) Daisuke Yokota × Takashi Kawashima × Takaaki Akaishi × Kan Nozaki (Professor of French Literature / The University of Tokyo) × Shigeo Goto (G/P gallery) Date and Time: Fri. September 5, 8:15pm -­‐ 9:45pm Site: DAIKANYAMA T-­‐SITE building 3 2F Organizers: HILLSIDE TERRACE Photo Fair and DAIKANYAMA T-­‐SITE Fee: ￥500-­‐ Booking required. Please visit: http://tsite.jp/daikanyama/event/004161.html (7) Beat Streuli × Shino Kuraishi (Photo Critic / Poet) Date and Time: Sat. September 6, 1:30pm -­‐ 3:00pm Site: HILLSIDE TERRACE café Organizer: HILLSIDE TERRACE Photo Fair Booking required. Please send your name, phone-­‐number and the title of the talk to [email protected] (8) Ken Kitano × Toshiya Murakoshi × Takashi Arai × Rei Masuda (Chief Curator / The National Museum of Modern Art) Date and Time: Sat. September 6, 6:30pm -­‐ 8:00pm Site: DAIKANYAMA T-­‐SITE building 2 1F *changed from DAIKANYAMA T-­‐SITE building 3 2F Organizers: HILLSIDE TERRACE Photo Fair and DAIKANYAMA T-­‐SITE Fee: ￥500-­‐ Booking required. Please visit: http://tsite.jp/daikanyama/event/004161.html (9) Atsushi Hamanaka (twelvebooks) × Yusuke Nakajima (POST) × Takayuki Ishii (Taka Ishii Gallery) Date and Time: Sat. September 6, 8:15pm -­‐ 9:45pm Site: DAIKANYAMA T-­‐SITE building 2 1F *changed from DAIKANYAMA T-­‐SITE building 3 2F Organizers: HILLSIDE TERRACE Photo Fair and DAIKANYAMA T-­‐SITE Fee: ￥500-­‐ Booking required. Please visit: http://tsite.jp/daikanyama/event/004161.html 3 Events: Workshops (1) Collotype Print With supervision from an expert printer from the Kyoto-­‐based art printing company Benrido, participants will experience the collotype printing process in this workshop. Date: Fri. September 5, 2:00pm -­‐ 5:00pm Site: IMA CONCEPT STORE (Roppongi) Fee: ￥5,000 Capacity: 10 This workshop is conducted in Japanese. The admission closed. (2) Platinum Print With supervision from amanasalto printing director Motoyuki Kubo, participants will experience the platinum printing process in this workshop. Date: Sat. September 6, 1:00pm -­‐ 6:00pm Site: amanasalto (Kaigan, Minato-­‐ku) Fee: ￥12,000 Capacity: 12 The participants will be asked to submit their work (data) by Sun., the 31st of August. This workshop is conducted in Japanese. The admission closed. (3) Gelatin Silver Print With supervision from an expert printer from Shashin Kosha, the professional photo lab that handles Nobuyoshi Araki and Daido Moriyama’s prints, participants will experience the gelatin silver printing process in this workshop. Date: Sat. September 6, 1:00pm -­‐ 4:00pm Site: Shashin Kosha (Kanda) Fee: ￥5,000 Capacity: 8 The participants will be asked to bring their negative film. Alternatively, they can work with a negative film provided by Shashin Kosha. This workshop is conducted in Japanese. Booking required. Please send the title of the workshop, your name and phone-­‐number to [email protected] by the midday of the 5th of September. 4 Pop-­‐Up Bookstore: STEIDL + MACK Since its establishment in 1967, the German publisher STEIDL has drawn the attention of photography fans around the world by consistently publishing high quality books, which it produces entirely in-­‐house, from planning to printing and binding. The London-­‐based publishing company MACK was established in 2010 by Michael Mack, who directed STEIDL's photography books department for 20 years. This pop-­‐up bookstore will showcase the visions of these two internationally acclaimed publishers. This project is co-­‐produced by POST and twelvebooks, official distributors, respectively, of STEIDL and MACK in Japan. Dates and Time: Thu. September 4 – Sun. 7, 11:00am – 7:00pm *11:00am -­‐ 5:00pm on the last day Site: gallery ON THE HILL (located inside Daikanyama Hillside Forum) STEIDL: www.steidl.de MACK: www.mackbooks.co.uk POST: post-­‐books.jp twelvebooks: www.twelve-­‐books.com Portfolio Reviews: Tokyo International Portfolio Review *event finished A group of internationally recognized curators, gallery directors, and critics will review portfolios. Organizer: Tokyo Institute of Photography Dates and Time: Fri. August 22 and Sat. 23. 2014, 10am – 6:00pm Site: Studio Lotus (4F No.3 Suzue Bldg. 1-­‐14-­‐24 Kaigan Minato-­‐ku Tokyo) Press Contacts Yasuko Ichikawa / Ayako Koide, HILLSIDE TERRACE Photo Fair Office Email: [email protected] Tel.: +81-­‐3-­‐5456-­‐9234 / +81-­‐90-­‐7947-­‐1289 For Other Inquiries Natsuka Okamoto / Sayaka Takahashi, Fine-­‐Art Photography Association Email: [email protected] Tel.: +81-­‐3-­‐5646-­‐6050 (Okamoto, TIG) / +81-­‐3-­‐3455-­‐7827 (Takahashi, P.G.I.) Address: 2F 6-­‐6-­‐9 (located inside Taka Ishii Gallery Modern) Roppongi Minatoku, Tokyo 106-­‐0032, Japan Official Website: hillsideterracephotofair.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/hillsideterracephotofair Twitter: twitter.com/HSTPhotofair 5