5/4 7:30PM @RPS KYOTO PAPEROLES : Talk Event Photobook Review with the Authors : The Creation of Artist’s Books from Multiple Perspectives

PHOTOBOOK AS OBJECT / PHOTOBOOK WHO CARES will be exhibiting at the KG+PHOTOBOOK FAIR 2024, and on Saturday, May 4, RPS Kyoto Paperoles will host a talk show featuring four of the artists who will be exhibiting and selling their books at the book fair. The four artists, who have different experiences as artists and work on different themes, will talk about the process of turning their projects into artist books from their respective perspectives.
The artists and their respective artist books are as follows

■Moe Suzuki will hold a photography exhibition at RPS Kyoto Paperoles, starting from Friday, 3. Her previous work, “Sokohi” has been exhibited internationally in Tokyo, Kyoto, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, Northern Ireland, and France, and her photo book “Sokohi” has been selected for and won the Luma Rencontres Dummy Book Award 2021 and other Dummy Book Awards around the world. Her latest work, “Aabuku,” focuses on water and soil pollution caused by “Poly and Per-Fluorinated Alkyl Substances” (PFAS) in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. Three years of research have been conducted to gather information on the data of the contamination, as well as to visit people connected to the water and land that have been found to be contaminated. The work attempts to capture the reality of environmental pollution and the social structure behind it.
https://www.banyan-b-i.com

©︎Moe Suzuki / Aabuku

■Kanta Nomura was a mentorship program participant at RPS and worked on “The Yoshida Dormitory Students’ History” in the experimental workshop on cinematic storytelling and editing “Atlas Lab with Akina Books” held at RPS in March 2018. As the situation regarding the survival of the Yoshida Dormitory was changing, he continued to create dummies along with the situation and produced 106 copies of the artist’s book “Yoshida Dormitory Old Dark Room” completely by hand. His book was shortlisted for and won the Luma Rencontres Dummy Book Award Arles (France) in 2020, Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation Photobook Awards (Paris and New York) in 2021, and many other awards. He was awarded the memorable first ANDY ROCHELLI GRANT by CESURA (Italy).
https://nomurakanta.com

©︎Kanta Nomura / Yoshida Dormitory Old Darkroom

■Kazuhiko Matsumura, Chief of RPS Kyoto Paperoles has important themes: “Life”, “Social Security”, and “Care”. His artist book “Guru Guru” depicts the cycle of life through the life and death of family members. Matsumura had closely followed Dr. Kazuteru Hayakawa in Nishijin, Kyoto, who was a pioneer in community and home healthcare for many years, and that turned into the photo exhibition “Elusive Rainbow” presented at KG+ in spring 2019. In 2021, he received an honorable mention at the “New Cosmos of Photography Awards” for this work. He has conducted long-term research on dementia, and his photographs and articles have been serialized in the Kyoto Shimbun and contributed to magazines. He interviewed four groups of people with dementia, their families, and the people around them. He presented his work capturing their daily lives and vicissitudes as “Heartstrings ” at KG+SELECT 2022, which won the Grand Prix.The same series was exhibited at KYOTOGRAPHIE 2023.
https://www.instagram.com/kazuhiko.matsumura81/

©︎Kazuhiko Matsumura / Guru Guru

■Mie Inada participated in “Photobook as Object,” a photography book production workshop held at RPS in 2019, and after four years, released her first artist book “INCOMING MESSAGE” last August. Although there is a U.S. military site in Wako City, Saitama Prefecture, she had no interest in the site at all until when she first noticed a broken-down hut on the U.S. military grounds. It was at that very moment that the past of the postwar occupation suddenly loomed in front of Inada’s eyes. Since then, she has continued to photograph the hut and the few remains and artifacts of the former U.S. military base in the neighborhood, while conducting research on “Camp Asaka (former Camp Drake)” and interviewing individuals who were not revealed through official documents, and compiled them into a book.
https://www.instagram.com/mie_inada/

©︎Mie Inada / INCOMING MESSAGE

【Event Information】
Date: Saturday, May 4, 19:30
Venue: RPS Kyoto Paperoles
Address: 60603 Oimatsucho, Kamigyoku, Kyoto
https://goo.gl/maps/1V5XyJ4kfuDk91F87
(Nearest bus stops:Kamishichiken or Senbon-Imadegawa）
Contact: paperoles@reminders-project.org
Moderator: Yumi Goto (RPS Kyoto Paperoles curator)

KG+PHOTOBOOK FAIR 2024
Dates｜May 3rd (Fri) 10:30-18:00
May 4th (Sat) 10:30-18:00
May 5th (Sun) 10:30-18:00
Venue｜KUROCHIKU TENSEIKAN 2F
Address｜380 Mukadeya-cho, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto
Exhibitor name｜PHOTOBOOK AS OBJECT / PHOTOBOOK WHO CARES [Tokyo/Kyoto]
https://kgplus.kyotographie.jp/en/events/2024/16843/