THE JAPANESE EYE

THE JAPANESE

EYE

A Four-Part Photography Workshop

Photography carries the assumptions of the culture that

shapes it. This workshop considers four Japanese

photographers whose work proposes different relationships to

time, to subject, to the act of looking itself: ways of seeing that

have quietly reoriented what we think photography can be.

Each session examines one artist in depth. We'll look closely

at how their images work, what they ask of us, and how a

distinctly Japanese sensibility has opened possibilities the

medium is still absorbing.

January 17 – Hiroshi Sugimoto: Duration and

Disappearance

What happens when the camera looks for hours instead of

fractions of a second? Sugimoto's work sits between

document and erasure, proposing that photography might

register not what appears, but what remains when appearance

dissolves.

January 24 – Masahisa Fukase: Proximity and Obsession

Family, intimacy, loss: returned to again and again until looking

becomes a kind of haunting. Fukase's photographs ask how

close we can get to our subjects, and what it costs to keep

looking when the looking itself is painful.

January 31 – Daido Moriyama: Disorder as Method

Grain, blur, accident: everything Western photography was

taught to avoid. Moriyama's work suggests that clarity might

be photography's limitation rather than its goal, that the

fugitive and degraded carry their own truths.

February 7 – Rinko Kawauchi: Attention as Radical Act

Small things, quiet light, the everyday elevated not through

drama but through sustained noticing. Kawauchi's

photographs propose that wonder doesn't require spectacle,

that the intimate scale might be photography's most powerful

register.

Attend all four sessions for a considered journey through

different photographic sensibilities, or take individual classes:

each offers a complete study, though resonances emerge

across all four.