Histoires humaines
Lisa Mimura, My Japan — Kept Alive by Hand
Based in Hiroshima, the general incorporated association My Japan works to pass Japanese cultural tradition and the appeal of its regions on to the next generation. Its representative director is Lisa Mimura. A festival staged in a shrine, a walk up a mountain at dawn, a brush-making workshop: her work looks, at first, unusually broad. Yet all of it comes from a single aim...
Communautés et initiatives
A Chance Photograph Is Not Skill: Nishimoto Kazutami and Yūbijuku
Nishimoto Kazutami, who runs the photography school Yūbijuku, spent many years working with images from the side that presents them, long before he taught anyone to make them. After graduating from Kanazawa College of Art, he worked in advertising and the record industry in Tokyo, then set out on his own as an art director. He created album covers for many of Japan’s defining...
Histoires humaines
Daichi Monden — What Remains After the Festival
Born in Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima, Daichi Monden never left this land. Nearly forty years in television, and the years since he founded his own company. While so many set their sights on the capital, Monden stayed, and made the times where people gathered in this city. Yet the truest shape of his work shows not in the crowds themselves, but in what appears once they...
Travaux de création
Karin Noda — In the Cloth, There Are People
In Yokogawa, an old quarter of Hiroshima, a three-story townhouse has been given a second life. Its rooms — renovated, yet still holding the grain of the old building — are where Karin Noda works, under the name Yokogawa Guild. Born in Hatsukaichi, she trained in ceramics and later wrote essays before she arrived at the material that would hold her: cloth. A kimono...
Histoires humaines
DJ OOF: The Man Who Collects Light and Mixes It Back
Long before “multimedia artist” became a job title anyone could claim, OOF — born Jaïs Elalouf — was already doing the thing itself: mixing sound, image, text, and other people’s attention into something that could only exist live, in a room, for the length of a show. He started DJing in 1992. Three decades later, the pseudonyms have multiplied — Zzouf, Lunivers, JAÏS, and...
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