Kochi– day 4

Day 4 Nahari Fishing port, 6th generation of Takadaya, Kumihiro Takazaki, runs a family restaurant, and converted the ancestral home into a living museum. Headed to fishing port of Karyogo 加領郷. Deepsea Fishermen, mending nets. Headed to local produce store, setup booth. Return to exhibit, interviewed by Kochi Shimbun, newspaper #KantaPortraits #KantaJapan #KochiArtFestival #KochiArtFestival2018 #KochiArtProjects #KochiArtProjects2018

Kumihiro Takazaki

living museum

living museum

drive

Karyogo 加領郷. Deepsea Fishermen

Karyogo 加領郷. Deepsea Fishermen

Karyogo 加領郷. Deepsea Fishermen

Karyogo 加領郷. Deepsea Fishermen

Karyogo 加領郷. Deepsea Fishermen

Kochi– day 3

Day 3 into the mountains, visiting the country town of Kizenzan. @acosoma あこ hosted us #KantaPortraits #BoxKameraLab for the entire day. Run by @masa.seto who has moved to the countryside, a co-working space, [6] his team and learning centre, together with several professionals and education consultants, they are part of a wave of urbanites looking for quality of life and a relook at education, reviving small schools, [1] education town administrators and officials. [2] Our days as always starts early, driving out throughout the Kochi districts sometimes two hours one way. [3] Mitsu with her 箱カメラ Hako Kamera @boxkameralabo. [4 & 5] Our prints for the day. Dropping off print to [8] Fujishima and his real cool cafe Missy Sippy [7]. [10] Beautiful life and family, inquisitive baby [9] following me everywhere. Kochi is like home already @ Kōchi Prefecture #KantaJapan #KochiArtFestival #KochiArtFestival2018 #KochiArtProjects
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[3] Mitsu with her 箱カメラ Hako Kamera

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[5] prints

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[7] drop off prints

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Kochi– Day 2

Day 2 Starts early, [8] daily walk to studio. [3] Today's excursion into the central mountain region of Otoyo, Shikoku island. [4] Different fieldwork recording devices. [2] Visiting another research team, Mimurasan with Kochi Arts Projects, on dying native dialect, and producing a local song in trying to revive the use of *Toyonaga dialect. [1] Highland farmers [12, 13, 14], researchers say are indigenous to these mountains. [7] Cultural Mapping, locality names and village layout [5] Mitsu doing a different kind of fieldwork, picking citrus while interviewing. [6] Travelling on open-back pickup truck, village style. [9] Display Title done [10] Opening talk and presentation, [11] demonstration. @boxkameralabo [15] makes portrait prints too of recent inhabitants Tosacho #KantaPortraits #BoxKameraLab @ Otoyo #KantaJapan #KochiArtFestival #KochiArtFestival2018 #KochiArtProjects #KochiArtProjects2018

[1] Highland farmers

[2] Visiting another research team

field recording devices

highland rice fields, Otoyo

Yuzu picking

farm transport

cultural mapping

Kochi city

exhibition title 

Opening talk

Kochi– Day 1

Day 1 Hunter Ogawa, memory collector Seafront Seikosan #KantaPortraits Box Kamera Laboratory with Mitsu Maeda. *note: no time to write indepth story, running around everyday #KantaKochi #KantaJapan #KochiArtFestival #KochiArtFestival2018 #KochiArtProjects #KochiArtProjects2018

#KantaKochi The hunter and his outpost, close to Ogawa. The mountains of Aki #KantaPortraits taking portrait. 撮影してきました。今は会場に戻って展示用プリント中。20時までおります！！！ Box Kamera Laboratory #KantaJapan #KochiArtFestival #KochiArtFestival2018 #KochiArtProjects #KochiArtProjects2018

hunter in his cabin

Mitsu making title

both cameras

jeff putting title

Mitsu on our first field trip

Mitsu doing field recordings

Seikosan, thrift shop owner

Seikosan

Kanta in Japan

7 November– All packed, I've recently started marking my bags to help me identify it easier at conveyor belts and in the field. Taken from the first prototype #1interchange the tilted lens board. It's now turning into some sort of mark. All the marks are based on actual lens board sizes and diameter

4 November– With Mitsu Maeda coming November
あと1ヶ月にせまってきた高知での写真展、インスタントKANTAポートレート！マレーシアの箱カメラマスター、Jeffreyを招いての展示です。DMに載せ忘れてますが、基本昼はJeffreyと、県内各所で箱カメラを使って撮影し、日が落ちたら展示会場に戻りその日撮影分を展示していく関係上、平日は17-20時がギャラリーのあいてる時間になります。土日は作家2人は在廊してませんが、11時からあけておくつもりです。 @ Kochi, Kochi

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Booth– Urbanscapes

PESTA LORONG HANG KASTURI with Urbanscapes. Get your Instant portrait print on Silver Resin-Coated paper using a self-made box camera. Kanta Portraits will set up for one day only, November 4th, 11am-7pm. Only Kamra #1interchange will be available at 3.5x5.5" size

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Plaza centre of Downtown KL

Saturday Portraits– Nov

3rd November 2018, 11am to 7pm #SatPort

GET YOUR INSTANT PORTRAITS on Silver Gelatin Resin-coated paper using a self-made box camera. Inspired from century old techniques & practices, this process is entirely manual.

An amalgamation of both the camera & the darkroom, #KantaBoxKamra is now available one Saturday of every month at Room 203 café at Publika, Jalan Duta.

In collaboration with Bang Bang Geng and support from Room 203, Saturday Portraits is a fundraising and awareness initiative on the portraiture project and the artform.