Exhibition

Road to Recovery: 5 Years and Counting
Photography exhibition by Shinpei Kikuchi

March 5 - April 1, 2016 / Main Bar

I live in the town of Kamaishi in Iwate Prefecture, on Pacific seaboard of the Tohoku region of Japan.  The town is famous as being the birthplace of modern iron manufacturing.

When the great earthquake struck northeastern Japan on March 11, 2011, I grabbed a camera and fled towards the evacuation center located in the grounds of the local junior high school, with the tsunami close on my heels.  From that day on, my family and I began life as refugees.  Also from that day, I started to slip out from the evacuation center early in the morning while most of the people were still asleep, walking through the devastation wrought by earthquake and tsunami and photographing the various sights until dusk fell.  This became my daily routine.

Into the Heart of the Arctic
Photo Exhibition by Yoichi Yabe

Main Bar Feb. 6 - March 4, 2016

LAST JULY I SAILED North to three Inuit lands: Nunavik and Nunavut in Canada and Greenland. Where many people imagine an icy wasteland, my lens found a world teeming with life at the short summer$B!G(Bs height: birds, seals, whales, polar bears and humans all sharing the bounty of a rich marine ecosystem. With climate change now threatening this fragile environment, its Inuit peoples are asserting the right to determine their future and to conserve the unique world they have adapted to over millennia. I hope these images will generate both awe for the Arctic's beauty and concern for its future.

As a sea-going photojournalist, for over 25 years Yoichi Yabe has covered trans-ocean yacht races, expedition cruises and almost anything that floats. Having recently joined the FCCJ as a Journalist member, Yabe-san comes into the Club from his home near the Shonan beaches.

http://yoichiyabe.com

The Exhibitions Committee

"Art is Mirror reflecting Nature"
Hikari Photo Exhibition by TAiYO((◎))KEiTA
FCCJ Main Bar

Schedule: 01/09/2016 - 02/05/2016

Weaving the tapestry of Mt. Fuji and sunshine.
I hope you can feel the magical energy of this mountain in combination with the light shinning from the sun.
(All photos are raw untouched images)

PROFILE I had my "walk-in" experience in 1997 after a terrible traffic accident that almost killed me. It was a turning point in my life and made me appreciate the little everyday things that I had not noticed before. I became fascinated by the magnificence beauty created by the sunrise and sunset around Mt. Fuji. This incredible encounter has led to the "Feel The Fuji" website, a social community designed under the concept of "Be Japanese again with music and art".

http://www.feelthefuji.com

The Exhibitions Committee

"They Touched My Heart"
Photographs by Derrick Woollacott
FCCJ Main Bar

Dec. 5, 2015 to Jan.8, 2016

In January 1946, Sergeant Derrick Woollacott was a 22 year old photographer for the Royal Air Force, stationed in Iwakuni as part of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF). This exhibition displays a selection from a series of 100 personal photographs taken in and around Hiroshima Prefecture in 1946. As a young airman, fresh from the War in South East Asia, he was completely overwhelmed by the beauty and dignity of the Japanese people, an experience that changed his life forever. His images – all presented in full negative, uncropped – focus on Japanese people going about their lives and include stunning portraits of mothers and children, fishermen and farmers, taken mere months after the destruction of Hiroshima. While many were published at the time, and he won first, second and third prize in a photographic competition in the Mainichi English edition in October 1946, this is the first time that they have been seen in public since 1947.

Goodwill of Animart
ANIMA + ART = ANIMART
Artwork by Takehiko Kamei

Nov. 7 - Dec. 4 ,2015 Main Bar

At a time when the world is confronted with numerous disasters, the various races should look back over their poignant national histories, to revive the memories of ANIMA that have been shared by humanity since ancient times and express their desires and hopes for peace through art. As a member of the human race and in my capacity as an artist, I have carried out a variety of creative activities, both in Japan and abroad, that I call ANIMART.  For this exhibition, I show works that present an image of spiritual peace and prayer.

FCCJ's 70th Anniversary
Photo exhibition from Club Archives

Oct 3 - Nov 6, 2015
FCCJ Main Bar

Seventy years since its birth, the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan represents a crucial testimony to the growth of postwar Japan. The Club was founded in 1945 among the rubble of Tokyo after Japan's surrender to the Allied Forces that ended World War ll. During the past decades the organization has hosted top-notch journalists who have told the world some of the most critical stories in history. They have covered among other important landmarks, the International War Crimes Tribunal, followed by Japan's miracle recovery that is marked with its embrace of a democratic Constitution and global markets.

This exhibition features Pulitzer Prize winners, politicians, novelists, and other world famous guests.  On the social front, photos and anecdotes reporting the dramatic changes in postwar Japan and other images that symbolize the energetic spirit born under Japan's new democratic peace Constitution.

Please enjoy the exhibition as you drink a toast to the FCCJ on its seventieth anniversary and wish this tremendous organization many more decades to come.

Suvendrini Kakuchi,
President

The Exhibitions Committee

Board shorts
Artwork by YUSUKE HANAI

Sept. 05 - Oct. 02, Main Bar

Evidence NAGASAKI: within 1 km of Ground Zero
photo exhibition by Akira Matsumura

Aug. 1 - Sept. 4 Main Bar and Masukomi Sushi

It has been seventy years since the atomic bomb was dropped and Nagasaki now looks no different from other cities. Everything about the atomic bomb tends to be forgotten, seen as something from the past. Media coverage is more or less limited to the atomic bomb's anniversary, mainly news reports on the day of the ceremony. For this work, I photographed the atomic bomb remains and relics that were within one kilometer of the hypocenter at the time of the bombing. I sincerely hope these various close-up photographs will be remembered as the evidence for generations to come.

OYAKO Parents & Children
Photo exhibition by Bruce Osborn

Main Bar July 04 - 31, 2015

I began taking photos of parents and children as a way of looking at Japanese culture and the changes from one generation to the next. In the 33 yr. since starting this series, I have taken thousands Oyako and the project has grown in ways I never expected. In 2003, my wife and I started Oyako Day social action which is on the 4th Sunday of July. On Oyako Day, I take photos of 100 families in an all day Super Photo Session. July 26 will be our 13th Oyako Day event. For more information about Oyako Day, go to the website.

www.oyako.org
* Photos in this exhibition are from an ongoing series I'm taking for Mainichi Newspaper.

bio
Originally from Los Angeles, Bruce Osborn has been based in Tokyo since 1980. His photos can be seen in numerous publications and advertisements, both in Japan and overseas. Bruce has gotten a number of awards and published several photo books. In addition, he shoots and directs TV commercials and music clips. In 2014, a movie was made about Bruce and his Oyako project.

oyakomovie.com
www.bruceosborn.com

Japan Photo exhibition by Naoki Honjo
Main Bar June 6 - July 3

Naoki Honjo is a renowned photographer with his unique photographing method of making a reality into unreal. With his 4x5 large format film camera, he adjusts a focal point and captures our daily lives that become a whole different world. His works point out how vague and ambiguous the universe that we assume we know is. He has been taking bird's?eye view photos of landscapes, cities, buildings, and artifacts of the present day around the world including USA, France, England,

Africa and China. Among them, he chose Japan to show the traditional architectures and landscapes.

Naoki Honjo

Born in Tokyo, Japan in 1978.

He graduated from Tokyo Polytechnic University Graduate School of Arts with a MFA in Media Art Course. Since then, he has had many solo exhibitions and participated group exhibitions including "Reality Check: Truth and Illusion in ontemporary Photography" that was held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. He received the 32nd Kimura Ihe Award with his first photo book, "small planet" in 2006. His works are in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the useum of Fine Arts, Houston.