©Herbie Yamaguchi

©Patrick Taberna

Au Fil Des Jours -As Time Goes By-

Patrick Taberna Photo Exhibition

26 July - 23 September 2008

Patrick Taberna

Born on June 16, 1964, Patrick Taberna begins photographing in the course of numerous travels in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the United States, Nicolas Bouvier’s L’usage du monde being his constant companion. Shortly after his arrival in Paris in 1987, he regulary attends the meetings of the Club des 30/40, led by Jean-Luc Lemaitre and later by Francis Richard.
In 1997, he undertakes a postal exhibition, “Passage en Ouest”.
In return for stimulating his taste for travel and photography, ten people each receive thirty-seven photographs on a weekly basis.
This adventure will notably lead to a correspondance between himself, Bernard Plossu and Robert Frank.
He meets, for that matter, the latter in April 1999. Patrick Taberna is awarded the FNAC mention in 2000 for “Nord magnétique” and wins the FNAC Paris award in 2001 for “Nos Italies”.
He is laureate of the HSBC Fondation for photography in 2004.

Overview

Patrick Taberna's images are extremely impressive. Because of the stability of tone, they are rather dark, those images bring people a feelings of uneasiness. Sometimes they blur,sometimes they are out of focus, and this emphasize the story of unknown place. At the same time, the story, with a familiar elements like hands, legs, scissors and playing card, recall one's memories and touch the feelings of something like dream then finally to nostalgia. This is why his style of photography gains symphathy and his images are widely accepted. His works are excellent because he never changes his taste of photograpghing during one series to another.

This is his first exhibition in Japan. We exhibited total images of 36 from "Au Fil Des Jours" series. Patrick Taberna visited Kobe around the end of exhibition and gallery talk live was held on 23rd Sep, the final day. Patrick is quite coopperative and his personality was loved by people who took part in those events.

We are expecting his coming back someday with his new series.

Gallery TANTOTEMPO

Takeki Sugiyama

Michael Dweck Photo Exhibition

"THE SURFING LIFE"

4 Oct. 2008 ー7 Dec. 2008

ⓒMichael Dweck "Sonya Poles, Montauk, New York, 2002"

Michael Dweck

Michael Dweck was born in NY. He studied fine arts at the Pratt Institute. Dweck began his career in advertising and become a highly regarded creative director receiving over 40 international awards.Having taken up photography at an early age and used photography throughout his career.

He left advertising to focus on photography full time and his images appeared in numerous publications throughout the world, including" Vanity Fair", French " Vogue", and "Esquire".

Michael Dweck burst onto the photography scene in 2004 with his photo book "The End: Montauk, N.Y." (and related exhibitions) in which he documented the surfing subculture of Montauk, Long Island, evoking a real-world paradise lost. His upcoming exhibitions in 2008 will feature the work from Mermaids and will tour galleries throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. Michael Dweck lives in New York City.

THE SURFING LIFE

"THE SURFING LIFE" is a series of images from his photo book "The End; Montauk, N.Y." in which photographer captured the vanishing surf culture of Montauk. Montauk is located on east part of Long Island, N.Y. and was a paradise for surfers arround the end of 1960's and 1970's. Michael Dweck visited Montauk when he was a teenager and the surf culture gave him an impact. After three decades, he experienced the lost of surfing culture, that was once an adoratin for him, and this is expressed as "THE END". But for images, the documentary strait photography on those who living in Montauk and living with ending surfing subculture, he is looking them with admiration and this leads those images stunningly beautiful.

We present 23 images of this series from 4 October to 7 December 2008 at Gallery TANTOTEMPO, Kobe.

TANTOTEMPO

Takeki Sugiyama

Cooperator: Blitz International, Tokyo

TANTOTEMPO pure Photo Exhibition

"pure photography with +plus vol.01"

13 Dec. 2008 ー30 Dec. 2008

pure photography

TANTOTEMPO pure is our brand for young developing photographers. This is our first photo exhibition of pure photographers. 15 photographers joined together to present their works at our main gallery.

Living Life with Photography

This exhibition had a theme of "living life with photography". In Japan, photograpy is not popular even for people who have an artistic mind. They prefer contemporary art than photography. We presented those works in our 'living room' which were built inside main gallery with collaboration of furniture shop "THE PENNY WISE / Kobe" and this worked very well. Finally, during this exhibition, we made over 20 sales of pure photography.

TANTOTEMPO

Takeki Sugiyama

Hiroyuki Shirasaki Photo Exhibition

"B&W / BLUES & WHISTLES"

4 Jan. 2009 ー25 Jan. 2009

His images, with strong contrast and challenging tone control with highlights, are quite unique. He has a talent to show people the advantages of digital photography with those powerful light control.

He is a member of TANTOTEMPO pure photography.

©HIROYUKI SHIRASAKI

Yoshihiro Hagiwara Photo Exhibition

"SNOWY"

31 Jan. -1 March 2009

His life work is to introduce scenary of banishing Japanese coal mine of various area. In this series, he is telling a story of those closed coal mine and snow. Snowy scenary remind us the intense nature of winter time, but with another point of view, it seems that snow is giving a farewell to the ruins. Those beautiful images of monochrome gelatin silver prints are also excellent art works.

We present 25 of his "SNOWY" series at our main gallery.

Aki Tanaka Photo Exhibition
"DAZZLE" - bright as the sun -
28 March - 5 May 2009

Aki Tanaka is a Japanese photographer and she is educated photography in USA.

Her style is to bring sunny day lights to images and this make her photography brilliant.

Furthermore she designed this exhibition with acryl format to emphasize brightness of scenary.

We present 26 of Aki's original prints at Gallery TANTOTEMPO.

©Aki Tanaka

1 Year Anniversary of Gallery TANTOTEMPO

Exhibition of our collections and 5 photography events
9 May - 7 June 2009

A. Openning Reception & BossaNova Live

9 May PM5-

B. Lecture on photography by Nobuhiko Baba(Prof.of media art Konan Women's University)

16 May PM5-

C. Talk Live Show by Masashi Asada(photographer awarded of 34th Kimura Ihei Photography Award 2009)

23 May PM5-

D. Workflow of digital photography(T.Sugiyama, Director of TANTOTEMPO)

30 May PM4-

E. Gallery Talk by the director.

6 June PM5-

We exhibit 6 of Masashi Asada's works untill 23 May.

Naoki Fuse Photo Exhibition

"DOORS - into the beautiful country-"
13 June- 5 July 2009

Naoki Fuse is a newcomer to the photography scene. His works were selected and edited on a Japanese photography magazine "ASAHI CAMERA" last Octover.And this is his first appearance to the world.

His works are based on Japanese "MATSURI", festivals of Japanese countryside. As he was grown up in the city, he envoiusly looking into those dynamic matsuri dancing. His shooting around the MATSURI remind us the basic power of Japanese people. As Japan lost its economic power and politics, people have to cheer ourselves up. Naoki is trying to explain the "DOORS" between metro and countryside, past and present. And this explanation is excellent enough to evaluate this photographer as talented.

Wakako Kikuchi Photo Exhibition

"echoes - in the deep snowy mountain"

11 July - 16 August 2009

Wakako's white - her white, taken by her own effort climbing a mountain in Hokkaido, shows various colors in it. Her images are excellent because she knows how to focus into details of snow. Looking at her images, we can hear echoes of wind, sounds of snowslides and her breathing in the winter snowy mountains. Echoes also come from her memories of her father who passed away in her childhood. She spent several seasons with her father in snowy land and this brings her back to the deep snowy winter mountain.

C-type print/30 images

Group Exhibition

"Tender&Soft, the expression of monochrome photography"

22 Aug.(Sat) - 20 Sep.(Sun) 2009

Photographers：Mitsumasa Kageyama, Emi Fukuyama, Shinya Yamawaki, Yoshiko Kakuta

"Tender & Soft" was the concept of the exhibition. 4 photographers joined together to present their own concept of these "Tender & Soft" photography. Photography has enough power to express feelings and atmosphere. We realize some feelings coming though the photography. We tried to proved this power of expression.

"REHABILITATION - For a day to get healed"

26 September - 1 November 2009

We sometimes face accident and get deeply injured. Sometimes, it might be a trouble with our friends or families. We need time to get healed when we face those things. We may spend several days in bed, but we have to wake up and move ahead.

Takeshi Nishiyama is a talented photographer as he won several photo awards in Japanese photo competition. He was also injured by a traffic accident, and it was his turning point of changing his taste of photography. As he had long been making a perfect photography of plants, but during his rehabilitation, he realized that there are many beautiful things around daily life. This series are dedicated to the people who are struggling with the difficulties like diseases, injures and sadness.

Color, digital archival print, 30 images

Yasuteru Kasano Photo Exhibition

"One Day - Melody in New York"

7 November - 6 December 2009

Yasuteru Kasano is a young photographer who took course of ICP in NY shortly after graduation from collage in his age of 23.

He spent several years in NY and experienced many of unknown place there. He tried to capture the time of what he saw in his own eyes. His snap shots are very simple but filled with humor. His works are printed in beautiful gelatin silver prints with his own effort.

We exhibited 30 of his excellent works at Gallery TANTOTEMPO.

TANTOTEMPO pure is a brand introducing young developing photographer's photo works.

13 photographers joined together to present their works at our main gallery.

Living Life with Photography

This exhibition had a theme of "living life with photography". In Japan, photograpy is not popular even for people who have an artistic mind. They prefer contemporary art than photography. We presented those works in our 'living room' which were built inside main gallery with collaboration of furniture shop "THE PENNY WISE / Kobe" and this worked very well. Finally, during this exhibition, we made over 30 sales of pure photography.

Artisrts; Coju, Yuka Kato, Nobuhiko Baba, Ko Hioki, Taruho Sumi, Norinao Miyanishi, Yui Okada, Shin Saito, Kenji Ushikubo, Yasuteru Kasano, Ritsuko Ashida, Hiroyuki Shirasaki, Hideyuki Okimoto

Masahiro Amano Photo Exhibition "87th & Lexington - The Viewpoint From A Window / Snow"

9 Jan - 31 Jan 2010

©Masahiro Amano

Masahiro Amano is a Japanese photographer who tries to make an expression with/on/through a window. His photography contains two world, one is a real image and the other is virtual image..This exhibition is built with a series of fixed point observation method. Totally 28 images is exhibited and people will find more than 28 stories within those images.

film/pigment print　28 images

Meg Birnbaum Photo Exhibition

"plastic / fantastic" - Meg's photography of two "plastic" series-
6 Feb. - 21 Mar. 2010

Meg Birnbaum uses plastic toy camera for shooting. Her images, with plenty of silence, show stories of "one past day" and they sticks into one's mind. They are somithing poetical. They recall our memories and give us feelings of steadiness. This exhibition is build with two bodies of her series, "Corn Dogs and Blue Ribbons" and "Daylight Savings". Series "Corn Dogs" is a story of her visiting some agricultural fairs in New England. Her feelings is well expressed in this title and in beautiful monochrome prints that she felt "complicated" ballance in these fairs. One feeling comes from connection with animals, and the other from aroma of fried food like corn dogs. Both are the simbol of those fairs and showing Meg's adoration and the other hand unpleasantness within them. "Daylight Savings" is a story of summer days and it shows perfect refreshing of her mind with her family and friends and with great nature. Images are strong but quiet and also stunningly beautiful.

Meg Birnbaum visited to Japan with our invitation during her exhibition. She took part in an artist talk show on 13th March 2010 at Gallery TANTOTEMPO.

We exhibited 28 of her images.

Gelatin Silver Print 11

Pigment Print 17

(Edition of 25 / images)

nomoto piropiro photo exhibition

"into the silent land / kobe"

27 March Sat - 18 April Sun 2010

　ⓒnomoto piropiro

nomoto piropiro is a Japanese photographer who won digmeout prize at KANSAI ONAEBA photo festival in 2008. digmeout is a scheme of promoting young deveroping artist funded by FM 802, an FM radio station in Osaka.

His photography is digital photography and they are shoot by a electrically modefied DSL camera with infrared filter. His photgraphy shows people perfect quietness and standstill with blue-gray world.

We showed 25 of his works at gallery TANTOTEMPO. And simultaneously TEZUKAYAMA Gallery handled "into the silent land / osaka" from the same series in Osaka. Both gallery was linked with Apple Inc.'s iChat software to show each exhibitions.

digital pgotography/pigment print in acryl format. 25 images

Reiko Imoto Photo Exhibition

DREAMSCAPES Visual Spirals of Consciousness / Unconsciousness

8 May 2010 - 13 June 2010

ⓒReiko Imoto

Gelatin Silver Print, 28 images

For details, click here.

Daniel Machado Photo Exhibition

Miguelete Jail House -Lights and Shadows of Uruguay-

19 June - 18 July 2010

ⓒDaniel Machado

Daniel Machado is an Uruguayan photographer who were educated architecture and graphic design in his student ages. He became a photographer later and in 2002, his government asked him to repair old historical photographs of Miguelete Jail house preserved in a old album. It is not just ruin photographs that recalls nostalgia but the evidence of urban deterioration of Uruguay.

"This project presents, beyond a literal anecdote, a metaphor of my vision of a country, Uruguay, which has been abandoned or, in the best of cases, whose inhabitants have managed to escape."

digital phtographs/lambda prints

Gallery talk show was held on 17th July 2010.

Carlos Jurado Photo Exhibition

"Waves of Silence"

24 July Sat - 22 August Sun 2010

ⓒCarlos Jurado

Carlos Jurado | Artist Statement

”Since childhood my life has been surrounded by art, in specific of music. The love to the scores was the reason why I submerged in its study and composition. Although at present my life is not ligature to its execution, I am convinced that it was thanks to music that I could find my true passion. Without a doubt the creation and artistic expression that leaves from the bottom of the soul. The ways to choose are numerous, some times even confusing. But I believe sincerely that the music was and still is, the beautiful bridge that lead to me until my present route, the true link between my thoughts and their materialization.

More than a photographer I consider myself as a lover of the sounds of the nature and in my attempt to shape them as much, in the memory as in the paper, It was how that I found photography; that for me it is the most effective means to transcribe those sounds into images.

I present my work like an abstract symphony, where the sounds of cellos and violins get mix and fusion with lakes in shape of Japanese biwas, like with the percussion of teponaztliz into the rustic forests of my native land.

Although now my ears are far from the rumor of the waves and the cry of the birds, I can listen and observe them not just only from the bottom of my soul, Because they have been captured not only in my memory, but also into the Silver gelatin and I can found them again every time that I put my eyes in which it is my own personal score.”

Carlos Jurado

Tokyo, Japan

(Quotation from carlosjurado.com)

film/pigment print 32 images

TANTOTEMPO / OCTOBER with RYO OHWADA Photo Exhibition

2nd Oct. - 31st Oct. 2010

ⓒRYO OHWADA

☆2 Oct. Sat. TANTOTEMPO Salon 5:30PM

☆9 Oct. Sat. Takashi Kakishima Talk Show 5PM
http://www.photta-lot.com/
marebito-school.com

☆16 Oct. Sat. RYO OHWADA Talk Show 5PM

☆23, 24 Oct. Portofolio Review for TANTOTEMPO pure Photo Exhibition

☆30, 31 Oct. -yamada cafe- "enjoy TANTOTEMPO owner's handmade cookies and cake for free"

Issei Suda Photo Exhibition

"Fresh and Blood"

6 November Sat - 5 December Sun 2010

ⓒIssei Suda

We present Issei Suda Photo Exhibition at Gallery TANTOTEMPO on November - December. Issei Suda made a great contribution to Japanese Art Photography scene and he is working on educating students at Osaka University of Arts.

Suda's book Ningen no kioku won 16th Domon Ken Award.

Photobooks

Fūshi kaden (Sonorama Shashin Sensho 16. Tokyo: Asahi Sonorama, 1978)
Waga-Tōkyō hyaku (Nikon Salon Books 5. Tokyo: Nikkor Club, 1979)
Inu no hana: Kimagure, shashin, sanpo (Tokyo: IBC, 1991)
Ningen no kioku(Tokyo: Creo, 1996)
Akai hana (Tokyo: Wides, 2000)
Fūshi kaden (JCII Photo Salon library 165. Tokyo: JCII, 2005)
Min'yō sanga (Tokyo: Tōseisha, 2007)

TANTOTEMPO pure Exhibition Vol.3

11 Dec. - 26 Dec. 2010

ⓒNorihisa Hosaka

[Photographers]

Norihisa Hosaka

Ai Takahashi

Akiko Kimura

Teruyasu Kasano

Hideki Kamauchi

Daiki Usui

Jiro Kawasaki