Time:
2010 Feb 27 11:00 - 11:00

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Summary:
Colors of Japan through Diplomats' Eyes: Wabi Sabi
(Main Bar and Sushi Bar)

Saturday 27 February to Friday 2 April 2010

Description:
For the Colors of Japan through Diplomats' Eyes exhibition at the FCCJ, about 30 works by 25 diplomats were selected from 500 submissions. This year’s theme for the annual project was wabi (beauty in simplicity and tranquility) and sabi (appreciation of transience and withered things).

Paulo Lopes Graca, Counsellor of the Embassy of Portugal, offers a beautiful take on the wabi sabi concept, portraying the fragility of things through a photo of Japanese characters erased by flowing water. With an explosion of color, Timothy Gellel, Defence Attache of the Australian Embassy, expresses the energy of different colored origami.
Alejandro Fernandez, the son of the Ambassador of Costa Rica portrays a mysterious and thoughtful monk in Kyoto, a photo selected as overall winner by Honorary President H.I.H. Princess Takamado.

Focusing on both the exotic and the mundane, the traditional and modern, these photographers offer new perspectives on a country with much yet to discover.

The Exhibition Committee