PRESENTER: Osamu James Nakagawa (School of Fine Arts, IU Bloomington)
TOPIC: Banta Cliffs + Gamma Caves: A 2009 Guggenheim Project
DATE: Friday, April 20, 2012
TIME: 12:00-1:15 p.m.
LOCATION: Ballantine 004
LOCATION: Ballantine 004
Osamu James Nakagawa’s new series of images center on the island of Okinawa, Japan and its Banta cliffs and Gama caves that still bear the scars of the intense battles waged during the Second World War. Nakagawa’s digitally manipulated images are laden with a heavy historical and emotional weight. His views of the cliffs and caves serve as pictorial metaphor for the tension between fear and beauty.
Osamu James Nakagawa was born in New York City; raised in Tokyo, Japan and returned to Houston, Texas at the age of 15. He received a Master of Fine Arts in Photography from the University of Houston. His photographs are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, George Eastman House, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, among others. Nakagawa is a 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship recipient and the 2010 Higashikawa Photo Festa’s New Photographer of the Year. Most recently he was nominated and invited to have a solo exhibition for the Les Rencontre d'Arles 2012, Discovery Award in Arles, France.
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