Sep.19.2008
New Cosmos of Photography Tokyo Exhibition 2008 to open
Grand Prize selection open committee meeting to be held during the exhibition
The New Cosmos of Photography Tokyo Exhibition 2008 will present Excellence Award-winning works by six artists and Honorable Mention works by 30 artists in 28 groups, who have been selected from among 1,517 entrants in 2008 (31st competition). An exhibition of new works by co-Grand Prize winners 2007, Megumi Kurosawa, Noriko Takuma and Daisuke Nakashima, will be held concurrently.
The open committee meeting to select one Grand Prize winner from among this year’s Excellence Award winners will also be held during the exhibition. The Grand Prize selection open committee meeting, highlighted by Excellence Award winners’ presentations, will also provide a forum for exchanges with the judges, where those attending can hear their ideas on photography directly. What is more, related events held on the day when the Grand Prize selection open committee meeting is held include a talk session with Mr. Katsumi Omori and Ms. Rika Noguchi, past New Cosmos of Photography prize winners and guest judges this year.
If you would like to attend the Grand Prize selection open committee meeting and talk session with the judges, please make advanced reservations (application details will be made available on this homepage by mid-October). We hope you will take this opportunity to attend the events.
1. New Cosmos of Photography Tokyo Exhibition 2008
| Date | : Saturday, November 8 - Sunday, November 30, 2008 10:00 – 18:00 (Thursday and Friday until 20:00, closed Mondays) |
| Venue | : Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (Exhibition Room on 1st basement) 1-13-3 Mita, Meguro-ku, Tokyo (inside Ebisu Garden Place) Tel: 03-3280-0099 7-minute walk from JR or Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line Ebisu Station |
| Admission | : Free |
| Exhibiting artists | : Excellence Award winners 2008 (31st competition) Okabe Tokyo, Kohei Koyama, Kenya Sugai, Masanori Hata, Ayano Hoya, and Miyuki Motoki (a total of six artists) (honorific titles omitted) Honorable Mention winners: 30 artists in 28 groups |
| Organizer | : Canon Inc. |
| Co-organizer | : Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography |
| Also scheduled | : Exhibition of new works by Megumi Kurosawa, Noriko Takuma, and Daisuke Nakashima (Co-Grand Prize winners 2007 (30th competition)) |
2. Grand Prize selection open committee meeting
| Date | : Friday, November 28, 2008 from 15:30 |
| Venue | : Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography 1F Hall |
| Capacity | : 150 on a first-come-first-served basis |
| Admission | : Free (advanced reservation required) * Application details will be made available on this homepage by mid- October. |
| Committee | : Nobuyoshi Araki (photographer), Kotaro Iizawa (photo critic), Fumio Nanjo (director of the Mori Art Museum), Ryoichi Enomoto (art director), Katsumi Omori (photographer), and NOGUCHI RIKA (photographer) (honorific titles omitted) |
Excellence Award winning works 2008 (31st competition)
Ayano Hoya “Gift”
Selected by Nobuyoshi Araki
Miyuki Motoki “zoe”
Selected by Kotaro Iizawa
Kohei Koyama
“Journey under the midnight sun”
Selected by Fumio Nanjo
Okabe Tokyo “Yosshi World”
Selected by Ryoichi Enomoto
Kenya Sugai “Telepathy”
Selected by Katsumi Omori
Masanori Hata
“Black humor or useless word”
Selected by NOGUCHI RIKA
Simultaneous exhibition :
Exhibition of new works by Megumi Kurosawa, Noriko Takuma and Daisuke Nakashima [Co-Grand Prize winners 2007 (30th competition)]
Megumi Kurosawa “Nanako”
Comments from the artist :
Nanako is a woman.So I do not know why he was born with the body of a man.
Because of this he has lived for 68 years pretending to be a man.
His wife and daughter do not know the truth either.
“I have given up on living as a woman” has got to be a lie.
That is because Nanako is such a woman.
Noriko Takuma “as if”
Comments from the artist :
To leave a sign. Where are these signs left? Signs are better than presence.
Like a heart that is stolen by a flower in full bloom, your eyes mist over, you look up to the sky and if something could change, the world would probably fall apart.
It is always the same; when I am stared at I get very scared and cry like a child.
It would be good if the tears that fall were a sign.
Daisuke Nakashima “neutral”
Comments from the artist :
When one is feeling good, or feeling pain, the expressions on one’s face are similar.
When on top of the person one loves, I stand over their bodies when they are acting out those great feelings that one cannot lie to oneself, I flatten the bumps and depressions, and stare at what I am not supposed to see.
Related events (honorific titles omitted)
1. Talk session with exhibitors
| Date | : 1st session: Saturday, November 15, 2008 from 16:00 2nd session: Saturday, November 22, 2008 from 16:00 |
| Venue | : Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (Exhibition Room on 1st basement) |
| Admission | : Free (advanced reservation not required) |
| Artists (scheduled) |
: < 1st session > Excellence Award winners 2008 (31st competition) Okabe Tokyo,Kohei Koyama, and Ayano Hoya Co-Grand Prize winner 2007 (30th competition) Megumi Kurosawa < 2nd session > Excellence Award winners 2008 (31st competition) Kenya Sugai, Masanori Hata, and Miyuki Motoki Co-Grand Prize winners 2007 (30th competition) Noriko Takuma and Daisuke Nakashima |
* Admission cannot be guaranteed if there are more visitors than the capacity of the venue.
2. Talk session with guest judges
(conducted on the same day as the Grand Prize selection open committee meeting)
| Date | : Friday, November 28, 2008 13:30 – 14:45 |
| Venue | : Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography 1F Hall |
| Capacity | : 150 on a first-come-first-served basis |
| Admission | : Free (advanced reservation required) * Application details will be made available on this homepage by mid-October. |
| Artists (scheduled) |
: Katsumi Omori, NOGUCHI RIKA |
