10/8 1pm- Pitch your work to the magazine NEUTRAL COLORS :”Grab a chance to be published in NC’s next issue!”

07/29/2023

Reminders Photography Stronghold makes the most of its network of international curators, editors, galleries and artists to practice on various collaborative projects.

We are excited to announce another open pitch event on 8 October in collaboration with the magazine NEUTRAL COLORS, where the participating artists will compete for the opportunity to present the work in NC’s next issue with the theme ‘Languages’. Participants selected through a pre-selection process will pitch their work in front of Naonori Kato the editor of NC, Daisuke Kano, the art director of NC, Yumi Goto, RPS curator, and an audience. Why don’t you join the event for the opportunity to present your work in this quite unique ‘magazine’ that even handles its own printing? Please refer to the following for the theme of work and how to submit your work. We are looking forward to receiving your submission.

This event is open to the public and will be held in the RPS Gallery. Anyone is welcome to attend and observe the pitches.

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The theme of the work ‘Language’:

Please present a ‘personal’ theme in line with the special feature ‘Language’. The reason why it is ‘language’ is because of my father’s experience of studying in Korea by himself after he was over 70 years old and I was overwhelmed at how he had learnt Korean language. Regarding my motivation to learn a language when I am older, I thought that if I travelled with my father in Korea, beyond my unconfined relationship with him, I would be able to grasp the reasons for it. I also felt the need to reflect this theme after my experience at the MISREAD book fair in Berlin last year, where I could not communicate our label’s concept simply because I could not speak English at all. In this way, the themes NEUTRAL COLORS wants to deal wit this theme ‘Languages’ next are personal and poignant, not necessarily socially charged. I’d like to hear more of your personal story.

—Naonori Kato / NC

If you wish to participate in the public pitch, you will be asked to bring a portfolio of your work or a photobook dummy. Present your work within the allotted 20 minutes. Please note that a projector or a wall won’t be used, so that you need to bring something ready to present on the table. The format of the presentation is up to the artist. Approximately 5 artists will be selected from the submission,(Deadline: 10 September. ) The work of one of the public pitch participants will be published in NEUTRAL COLORS issue 5 (on sale in June 2024).

＜10/8, 1pm – Pitch your work to the magazine NC: “Grab the opportunity to be published in issue 5 of NC!” >

◉Date and time: 8 October 2023 (Sunday), from around 1pm to 4pm.
*Please note that the event may be extended after 4pm, and both those pitching and the audience will be expected to attend from till the end even if this will be the case.
*There will be no online streaming of this event. Please come directly to the venue. No prior booking is required.

◉Venue: REMINDERS PHOTOGRAPHY STRONGHOLD
2-38-5 Higashimukojima, Sumida-ku, Tokyo

◉Guest judges: Naonori Kato and Daisuke Kato

◉Participation: free of charge (for both participating artists and the audience).

◉Theme: ‘Personal’ theme in line with the special feature ‘Language’ *see above

◉Participating artist: approx. 5 (selected from the submission)

◉Entry deadline: 10 September 2023, 23:59 hrs JST.

◉Application form:
*If the form does not appear, you can also enter directly via https://forms.gle/NbZbYEczvcUyacNU8.
*If the form does not work, or if you have not heard from us after 48 hours after submitting your application, please contact us by email without attachments: event@reminders-project.org
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<Profile: Naonori Kato >

Editor, launched NEUTRAL, TRANSIT and ATLANTIS as a publisher, editorial producer and design agency respectively. Consistently dedicated to editing magazines, he started the one-man publishing house NEUTRAL COLORS in 2019. In 2021, he launched the magazine NEUTRAL COLORS, which has published four issues so far. NEUTRAL COLORS is both the name of the publishing company and the name of an open space where a small group of people can share a workshop and get together to create as required. The name is also the name of a space where a small group of people can share a workshop and gather together to create as required. The aim is to create a place like an asylum for printing and bookbinding.

NEUTRAL COLORS is the name of an independent publisher, a published magazine and a printing and binding house. the three are organically connected. the publishing style of NEUTRAL COLORS is one in which a small group of people come together to print, bind and distribute the book. The aim is to create an economically sustainable medium-size publishing model, somewhere between mass commercial printing and small independent print runs (about 5,000 copies for magazines / 300-1,000 for books and art books), which are designed to be disposed of. The printing and bindery NEUTRAL COLORS is a place where a small group of people can share equipment and come together to produce books as required. It is equipped with equipment for printing and binding, including risographs, binding machines, cutting machines, folding machines and collating machines, and it is here that NEUTRAL COLORS’ publications are born. And this place does not exist solely for the practical role of book production. It is a laboratory where design and editorial ideas continue to accumulate, and functions as a kind of freeport where production methods and sales channels are opened up. https://neutral-colors.com/

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