I’ll join the group exhibition curated by Zelda Cheatle, and hosted by the Royal Photographic Society, Bristol, in April 2020.
I’m particularly excited to show the series of Tomorrow’s History: teenagers’ portraits and interviews project, which includes three of newly taken daguerreotypes in Ishigaki in this January. Thanks to the great translator Maud Rowell, all interviews and my essay will be published in the catalogue.

来る4月よりブリストルの王立写真協会で開催されるグループ展「スクウェアリング・ザ・サークル・オブ・コンフュージョン（錯乱円の切り取り）」に参加します。キュレーションは2016年ドバイ・フォトの総合キュレーションも行ったゼルダ・シャトル女史。
私は十代のダゲレオタイプ・ポートレイトとインタビューのシリーズ「明日の歴史」から、今年1月に石垣で撮影したばかりの3点を加えた17点を、音とライティングのインスタレーションとともに展示します。横浜美術館で作品に出会ってからずっと尊敬してきたスーザン・ダージェスさん、パーディ・ヒックス・ギャラリーでお世話になったセリーヌ・ボディンさんと一緒なのが嬉しい。カタログ用にインタビューとエッセイの素晴らしい翻訳をしてくださったモード・ローウェルさんに特に感謝します。

Exhibition: Squaring the Circles of Confusion

DATE AND TIME
10 April until 21 June 2020
Thursday – Sunday 10am – 5pm

VENUE ADDRESS
RPS House
337-340 Paintworks
Arnos Vale
Bristol
BS4 3AR

Pictorialism was photography’s dominant art form from the mid-nineteenth century until the early twentieth century. It focused on the beauty of subject matter, the perfection of composition and the photographer as artist, in contrast to photography as a scientific or documentary medium.
Neo-Pictorialism has an emphasis on the aesthetic and embraces the other-worldly. It is a direct and positive reaction to the digital age and new technologies. Photoshop, scanners and printers all greatly assist in the creation of the digital negative, enabling twenty-first century photographers and artists to make traditional photographic prints using historic process and technique.
This new exhibition, curated by Zelda Cheatle, celebrates the work of artists Takashi Arai, Susan Derges, David George, Joy Gregory, Tom Hunter, Ian Phillips McLaren, Celine Bodin and Spencer Rowell who each bring a pictorialist approach, through aesthetics or process to their contemporary work, addressing important issues and encouraging the beauty of the photographic image.